BELGIAN FEARS FOR THE CONGO
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German Claim for Recovery of Coloiiies ' KING LEOPOLD'S MISSION
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Received 13, 8.45 &.«.) » LONDON, NOV. If. AccOi'diiig td th© News-Chfonieie'i Brussels correspondent, one of th© sons fof King Leopold's visit t© I*on. don was to discuss the futUr© Of th© Belgian Coiigo, cOnCerning Whiehi anxieties have prevailed in. Bfiissel© sinc© Germany began the campaign to rOdover her colonies. "It is stated that Belgium feafs that Britain, to save her own colonial ©nipir© may dlose her eyes if Germaiij'j Wfefe to demand paft of th© Ccrago,'* the correspondent adds. "King Leopold will, therefore, aftk the British Government: 'Would Brit* ain iutervene in favOur of Belgiuin if Germany were to ask for the Congo territory f' "Th© Belgian Government hfti r«peatedly declared that on no pretext will Belgium part with a single squar© inch of her African possession, afid that she will resist with afnis any at* tempted 8xpropriation.,, :
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 43, 13 November 1937, Page 5
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156BELGIAN FEARS FOR THE CONGO Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 43, 13 November 1937, Page 5
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