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Show TO DIVIDE THE SPOILS. Great Britain, France and Germany to Partition the Congo. Brussels. Reports have been current cur-rent for some months that a grand repartition of Africa was tinder con slderatlon by interested powers, to which some color has been lent by certain observations Jy the French premier in the course of a recent speech. These have taken more definite form and It Is reported on good au-thoilty au-thoilty that the proposed scheme pro-' vides for the withdrawal of Belgium from the Congo, which will be divided di-vided between tJreat Britain, France and Germany. In compensation, according to the reports, Belgium Is to receive the grand duchy of Luxemburg and territory ter-ritory along the left bank of the Scheldt, and Holland Is to receive j counterbalancing colonial concessions. |