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Show f- CONGO NATIVES TREATED KINg K Mrs. if. French Sheldon. African explorer and author, who has just returned from a four of th Congo Free State, says her assertion that she had witnessed more atrocities in London streets than she had seen in the Congo should apply to the rubber rub-ber country as well as to the rest of the state. She has. she says, traveled in every part of the country, King Leopold having accorded her com- y ! plete freedom, and she was convinced that the a lie- gafions of maladministration were groundless ami that, it was quite false to say that King Leopold had ! sanctioned mielty. Wherever she went she found the native treated with kindness and consideration, while the improvements in the condition of the land and its inhabitants were almost incredible. Mrs. Sheldon endured great hardships in travel- ' jng, and was often up to her waist in water. She is still suffering from an accident, but is determined to return to the Congo Free State when she recovers. re-covers. Lord Mountmorres, an Englishman of wide experience ex-perience in Africa, is writing a scries of articles for a London daily in which he applauds the Bel- V' gian administration of the Congo and ridicules the charges of. ilorel and the Liverpool clique of traders who are trying to grab the rubber industry. |