CONGO CRUELTIES.
"CHRISTIAN ENGLAND'S PB.OTEST. GREAT DEMONSTRATION IN LONDON. • KING LEOPOLD DENOUNCED. U litea Association —Dy uieCtnc Telegtsp Copyright. Received November 22, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, November 2;. There was a great demonstration at Albert Hall, which was packed to express what was calbd "Christian England's protest against the cruelties in the Congo." Many bishops, peers, members of ih-i Hous.' «if C 'rnmoiis, nn'l clergymen of all denominations iv'trrf present. The Archbish.jp of Canterbury presided, ard emphasised Britain's share of responsibility in creating the Congo Free State. Doctor Clifford, in moving a resolution, which was carried with en thusiasm i'.i favour of complete reform or administration of affairs in the Congo, strongly attacked King Leopold's rapacity and brutality. Other spiakers, while exonerating Belgium as a nation, threw responsibility for the abuses on King Leopold.
Rev. Silvester Home described how the people were done to death in order that European financiers may flourish and the millionaire libertine upon the throne give rein to his passions.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9656, 22 November 1909, Page 5
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163CONGO CRUELTIES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9656, 22 November 1909, Page 5
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