CONGO FREE STATE.
[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] (BY electric telegraph—copybight.) London, December 14. Mr Leonard H. C. Courtney, President of the Royal Statistical Society, in the course of an address, stated that the expenditure of the Congo Free State exceeded the revenue. Rubber and ivory supplies, the chief products of the State, will some day be exhausted. Nine out of every ten white men who went to Congo were buried or invalided within three years.
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Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 372, 17 December 1898, Page 2
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74CONGO FREE STATE. Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 372, 17 December 1898, Page 2
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