Show GREAT PROGRESS MAO MADE IN CONGO RIE STATE slave trade has disappeared villages village sprung up railroads built and country la Is prosperous brussels the commission appoint oil od by b y king drig I 1 leopold to investigate the conditions in the congo independent state elate and the char charras made against the of the congo h his IB reported one paragraph of the le ie bois I 1 our voyage to the congo produced an ot of admiration and won der Se cuilty deigns today in a country which abich twenty five icara age ft vas as plunged in barbarity plundered plunder cil by arab tribes and strewn knitli mar bets for human flesh the slave has now disappeared cannibalism seeks hiding ani and humin human sacrifice a has become rare villages have sprung up rail railroads roads have been constructed to the head of the forests steamers navigate the lie chois the pos tal system and telegraph are in oper antion hospitals hive been established and government administration pi pio 0 coeds uninterrupted in that vast last counte couii 3 the report points out wit that the ionuti lation of their bodies la is nn an anctot cua eu torn of the matheo and that nil all the cases of mutilation presented ted freie eie at to nathies I 1 lie he commis slon therefore there foie concluded that there vaa ly as no 11 0 testimony shoeing thit the whites had been guilty of mutilations |