Show The Kongo atrocities are told anew and confirmed by the Rev William Morrison a missionary in that region pf Africa from Lexington Va The gist of them Is that the whole of the Kongo Free State la a slavepen and IB becoming depopulated by the task mastership of the Belgian officials and the atrocities with which they enforce their cruel rule The natives are caught and held under surveillance they aro required to bring In a stated stint of rubber cocoanuts Ivory or whatever is required and are punished pun-ished ruthlessly and without mercy when i they fall They are flogged mutilated neglected In sickness or when wounded allowed to suffer In prolonged agony and to die Large numbers have fled from the country and extensive regions have been depopulated de-populated In consequence of the savage exactions and ferocity of the Belgians Arab slavery was as nothing lo It |