Show Negros Negro's Book on the Congo Stirs Inter Interest t of Europe I PARIS Feb 4 By Universal Service A A voice the from the starving and oppressed millions of or the Congo sponsored by P. P Paris publisher and crowned with the I laurel wreath by the Illustrious academy is awakening tremendous Interest in interest interest in- in terest in Europe where it s hinted the theauthor's I authors author's revelations may provoke a new Congo scandal outdoing even that of or the Be Belgian Congo twenty years ago r fl ir The book is called and nd theauthor theauthor the theauthor I author is a ne negro 0 Rene Maran born In Martinique and educated In in la Bordeaux He is an administrator in the French Congo His Is the first book by a I. I negro to be awarded a prize for literacy in France Franc Civilization civilization pride of pf Europeans Europeans Eu Eu- their excuse for th the massacres of innocents the negro author exclaims in one passage You build your your- OUI kingdoms on corpses Whatever t i t you O do and wherever f v r y you go your road I is lined with i h lies In subsequent books I shall shan tear the veil from these scenes of horror horror and and in injustice in- in justice he S says ys i 1 shall tell how in certain religions unhappy negroes are obliged to sell their sell their wives at prices vary vary- In log ing from 25 to 75 francs apiece The voices of or tortured thousands will speak k through me The book Itself is of hl high h literary merit and has been called one of the most noteworthy noteworthy noteworthy note note- worthy achievements of the century It is the life lif story of one a naked savage inhabiting Charl Chall one of if the four regions c comprising the general general gen gen- eral government of French Equatorial Africa With almost brutal frankness the author au au- au- au thor Ihor paints the Uie family life lite and tribal customs customs cus cus- cus- cus toms of ot the Congo natives and their fear and end hatred of or the white while conquerors There is a question of emigration from French to German Congo speaks they are are both white Why change We know the ranjes French and are used to their ways They amuse themselves with us like Ike cats with mice The cat always eats the mouse eventually We Ve must be devoured vo d an anyway what way what matter by whom recounts the first appearance appearance- of the whites I was little then The first whites I came bringing mascots chickens chickens chick chick- fl ens dogs and women and we who h chick I had d so fn lived so BO peacefully e f and tranquilly moved 0 before their path until we reached bedge e. There we our homes anew replanted our plantations Ana Ann when we had finished the whites came there and we we had to m move ve again Front From there to where we thought t to breathe easily Error The whites whiles Installed themselves at New flight this this time to where we built our homes between the Bamba and Pombo Alas Our homes were not finished when the first whites arrived insatiable as ever So then discouraged tired not wishIng wishing wish wish- ing to see see the tribe wiped out out we we nad haa lost hundreds of men and women on the perilous marches marches we we remained where we were vere and submitted to the terrible white Since then we have been their slaves Not content wl with h trying to suppress our customs th they y wanted anted to impose on their own S I No o more right to gamble with mone money St ut t. t patara No Nomore more right to fo get drunk as we Wed liked Our dan dances and our songs Disturbed their sleep They would woula not tolerate them unless we paid a tax Pay PayPay Pay The coffers of their government government gov gee are insatiable We Ve are their b beasts of burden burden beasts beasts who produce I and who pay Beasts Not even that A dog A ho hon They feed them But we We Ve are less than thaS the animals weare weare we weare are in their eyes the lowest of the low I And so slowly they kill us off |