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AFRICA. No. 14 (1903).



DESPATCH

TO CERTAIN OF

HIS MAJESTY’S REPRESENTATIVES ABROAD

IN REGARD TO

ALLEGED CASES OF ILL-TREATMENT OF NATIVES

AND TO THE EXISTENCE OF

TRADE MONOPOLIES IN THE INDEPENDENT STATE OF THE CONGO.



Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of His Majesty.
October 1903.



L O N D O N :

PRINTED FOR HIS MAJESTY’S STATIONERY OFFICE,

BY HARRISON AND SONS, ST. MARTIN’S LANE,

PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HIS MAJESTY.


And to be purchased, either directly or through any Bookseller, from

EYRE and SPOTTISWOODE, East Harding Street, Fleet Street, E.C.,
and 32, Abingdon Street, Westminster, S.W.;

or OLIVER and BOYD, Edinburgh;

or E. PONSONBY, 116, Grafton Street, Dublin.

[Cd. 1809.] Price 1d.