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Show Reforms in the Congo. King Albert of Belgim has approved the' reforms proposed by his ministry in the administration of the Belgian Congo. The most important is the abolition of the system of collecting taxes through forced labor, under which frightful cruelties have been perpetrated in the past. Hereafter taxes are to be paid in money, not by labor, and are to be reduced in amount; native officials are to be substituted sub-stituted for white; and obligatory labor la-bor on the part of adults is to be restricted re-stricted to the works designed for the Improvement of their own conditon. |