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Show REFORMS NEEDED IN CONGO FREE STAIE Leopold Receives Report of Commission Investigating Alleged Abuses. 9RU0SBU, Nov. 4 Th nlRlan Government Govern-ment will mako public tomorrow th report of the enmmly.-lon appointed by King Leopold Investigate tho condition In the f nngn Independent Inde-pendent State and the charris mado ncalnst th" administration of the Congo. The Investigation Inves-tigation wa the reault of the violent criticisms criti-cisms of th Br!tlh Tarllament and of philanthropic phil-anthropic Nocletj-n in c.rnt Britain and the I'nlted Stnts and of Foreign Secretary Lans-downe'a Lans-downe'a representations cnncernlng the al- leged 1)1 treBlment of natives, ih rurpos of King iopoid being to secure a complete and Impartial utat'-ment of the actual situation Criticises Abuses The . ...ii .. hae bn In pipgrenx for fif-I fif-I Iren montha. The ,-ommlslon. which waa made up r.f Belgian, I'Allan nnd Swiss pub-j pub-j llclsl. hn 1mi-ii holding ses,,ns throughout . the Conga The Associated Press was given access -. the report, which, while praising thi I notable work Belgium has uer-ompll shed, i frankly crltlcle n number of sbUSSS. The reyorl concludes as follows: Some Needed Reforms. "Adopting the recommoQdatldna of the com- mlaslon will relieve the a-nirn and terminal" the c rltlc'sms. Th recommendations partlcu-)nrl. partlcu-)nrl. cover the groJitlng of Jrfo- natives lurger i land faciijts, lha limitation of native bdinr. the auppres.sion of sentinel overseers, the prohibition pro-hibition of companies imprisoning natives ajid limiting of military expeditions." Appoints Second Commission. King Leopold ha-s appointed a commission of ; fifteen members to consider practical m-ms f.T the adoption of the recommendations. |