NATIVE REVOLT
IN BELGIAN CONGO
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
CAPETOWN, August 6
- -A' serious revolt look place in Belgian Congo-, as ithe result of an increase in, the native tax. The headman who was collecting 'the tax ,Was brutally murdered.
A force of (our hundred natives and white officers left Elizabcthville, and were confronted by two thousand rebels armed with rifles and bows and arrows.. Ten were killed in the first
encounter. It is known that two officers and their wives and one priest were killed The revolt is difficult to suppress owing to the wild nature of the country.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1931, Page 6
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101NATIVE REVOLT Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1931, Page 6
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