BELGIAN CONGO.
AGITATION FOR REAL REFORMS. A GERMAN SUGGESTION. ■ LONDON, January 24. An influential meeting of Churchmen ,and Nonconformists, the Right Rev. Dr Ingram, Bishop of London, presiding, formed a joint Christian committee to agitate to secure real reforms in the Congo.
The "Dally Exrpess" states that M. Vandervelde, Socialist, declares that Geimany suggested that Great Britain, France, and.Germany should divide the Congo, anti that this led to the Belgian Annexation Bill. King Leopold's exorbitant demar.ds threatened to wreck it, but the situation was saved by France declining the Gorman overtures, in view of the Belgian right of pre-emption, and of her friendly relations with Belgium.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9041, 27 January 1908, Page 5
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106BELGIAN CONGO. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9041, 27 January 1908, Page 5
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