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Show JUSTICE TO LEOPOLD. Professor Wheeler of Yale Stamps Congo Atrocities a British Myth. Professor Arthur M. Wheeler of Yale, lecturer on European history, in discussing the death of King Leopold, said that he believed that the reports of the atrocities of the Congo had been doctored by the English and that these reports were inspired by the desire of the English to obtain for themselves them-selves the territory of the state to enable them to complete their Cape to Cairo railroad. He also declared de-clared that Leopold was a model constitutional monarch. "If everything said against King Leopold were true," said Professor Wheeler, "he would be no blacker than ihe rest of them. There is a vast deal of exaggeration in the reports of the cruelties from the Congo without a doubt. If there is anything worse than the operation of the British in Africa, I do not know of it. The way they treated the Zulus is hardly worse than the cruelties attributed to the Belgians." |