"CIVILISATION!"
A French trading vessel, in retaliation for the desertion of a native boy, went up and down the coast of the New Hebrides firing on the natives. Then a party was landed, which destroyed the property of an absent missionary, Mr Edgelle, including valuable communion vessels, and burned a house, the church, the schoolhouse and other buildings. The case was adjudicated by the French Admiral at Vila, and the license of the vessel was forfeited, but compensation was refused. Captain Guy Burrows, an Englishman, who has been employed for the past six years by the Congo Free State Government, in the course of an interview regarding the reported barbarities perpe trated upon .the natives by white officers gives a terrible picture of the atrocities committed, and says the state of affairs in the Congo is a disgrace to civilistat-ion. Ho has sworn evidence of a Belgian handing over natives to the cannibal tribe for the express purpose of being eaten, and of paying his work-people with corpses of murdered natives ; and he says the fact that cruelties are practised upon the natives by company and Government agents is not open to doubt-.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 363, 13 March 1902, Page 4
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