Salt Lake Herald | 1890-06-13 | Page 1 | Tippu Tib and the Congo State

Tlppti Tib and the Congo State Special to TiE HERALD Examiner Cable l BRUSSELS June 19 Tippu Tib is not on his way to the Indian ocean as has been reported He wont to his great town of Kassango m miles above Stanley falls in January last and after remaining there ten days aeturned to Stanley falls the centre of his ivory collecting eolecUns operations Lieutenant St Marcy writes from Kassango that Tippu Tin was l a towering rage over the reports translated to him from European newspapers accusing him of being guilty of treason toward the Congo state in whose services ho is engaged At Nianswe ho assembled all the chief Arabs and told them the country was prosperous and affirmed his devotion to the Congo state and wanted them to remember that tuey too were subjects of the King of Belgium Ho carries the blue hag of state at the head of his caravan whenever 1ag is on the march I