Missionaries From Congo Confirm Atrocities

Canadian missionaries who worked in the Congo for the last 17 years arrived here yesterday on the S.S. Vaderland and described atrocities committed against black Africans under the rule of King Leopold of Belgium. “I greatly regret that it is all too true and that the representatives of King Leopold have been guilty of many of the atrocities charged against them,” said the Rev. Dr. William H. Leslie. “With my own eyes I have witnessed many of the most horrible examples of cruelty practiced upon the poor natives in that country. I have seen natives with one hand cut off and I have seen them with both cut off, and in many cases the poor victims were children.” The article continues: “Dr. Leslie gave many other instances of the tortures that have been suffered by the natives, and said that much of the cruelty had been practiced in order to impress upon the blacks the necessity of their bringing to market the rubber wanted by their persecutors, and to emphasize the dire results that would follow their failure to do so.” Tells of Atrocities in Belgian Congo

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