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\ 4 SATURDAY BVMUHG, * *>' " #Cl "WTHE MINNEAPOLIS JOT3*RNAL. > NOVEMBER 7, 1903. him that Commodore Lloyd was deter fore they would be protected from the disguise. But, again, the English THE LAST CRUISE OF THE GENERAL mined to destroy the Armstrong, if he fire of the enemy by an angle of the DEFENSE OF LEOPOLD'S CONGO POLICY note objects, "The same methods are blew the town down in accomplishing fort. But in going this distance, employed to obtain native soldiers as It. Under these circumstances, Gap- which was about on1© hundred yards, were formerly employed to obtain ARMSTRONG, BY ONE OF HER CREW tain Reid concluded it best for the they were exposed t<j the fire of grape slaves, and force is as necessary to crew to land their clothes and effects, and canister and musket shot, which The Attacks on the King Said to Have Been Inspired by English Greed bring the natives to the places vyhere A True Story of the War of 18155, Now Published for the First Time. then defend the vessel to the last mo passed upon the beach without mercy, they are to serve as formerly was ment. making the stones fly in every direc for the Congo Territory—A Telltale Map Showing That Region necessary to lead the captive slaves." A part of the crew were engaged tion, and here there was but one man If the previous allegation was untrue, •<$> landing the baggage of the men and wounded, making in all two killed and * Divided Among Various Powers—What Has Really Been Accom- this one is both untrue and ridiculous. officers, when at 9 a. m. the sloop eleven wounded of the Armstrong £na*w So far from its having any foundation | C G. A inccnt, of Moorhead, Minn., sends to The Journal the of war stood in for the Armstrong, crew, while the English lost two hun In fact, the blacks contend eagerly for dred and fifty men* besides ninety w **. plished hy the Belgians in the Way of Civilizing and Assisting | following historical document, which he avers was written by a partici- and at 11 a. m. hove to within admission to service in the army. Of lJO | pant in the battle and has been preserved. If authentic—as it seems istol shot and immediately opened a wounded. the 16,175 men on the strength of the *p| Seavy fire from her 18-pound car- The sloop kept up a cannonading • the Natives — The Slave Baids Stopped — Cannibalism Being army, 5,218 are volunteers, and the |k| | to be—it has great historic value, and at an> rate, it is a most graphic ronades and two files of maiines and till 12 midday, when she hauled off whole army could be raised from vol- *M I account of a sea battle in the war of 1813. small-arm men. At this time there and careened to stop shot; holes. S Stamped Out. , ^ ._£ unteers if it was thought well to d6 'jo were but twelve men on board the At 2 p. m. the boats, three In num ,^d so. Those who are impressed into the ^y -<S> Armstiong—these were the officers ber, attempted to board the Arm Brussels Correspondence Boston Transcript. service are selected by the head men $3 <S>- and petty officers. They fought the strong, one boat pulling a long dis of their villages They number about jQt The schooner Geneial Armstrong out a single cloud in the heavens, and enemy bravely, but not having tance ahead of the other. They Brussels, Sept 23—Leopold,King of necessity of inquiries into the allega 2,200 men each year out of a popula- jM was alteied to a hermaphrodite brig the night was exceedingly beautiful sti ength to run out the guns after they seemed to use great precaution, at Belgium and of the Congo, is no roi tions against the Congo administra tion of twenty million inhabitants. To ^||fi in August. 1814. and fitted out foi a In that mild and serene climate were discharged, some dre wtheir length 6ne boat got under the bows feignant, his is one of the strongest tion. The Congo administration has liken the enrollment of this inflnitesi- Jp| cruise Her tonnag" was about 400 The town of Fayal stands on the breeching bolts, some dismounted, and one man got on board, but he and most powerful personalities in all not waited for any commission of in mal proportion of the population m ^^L, She mounted eight long nines, and a sides of high hills, on the water's edge some broke their trigs, etc., but those stepped mighty soft on the deck, in Europe. Called, as It seemed, by fate quiry to sit. It has already replied the army to an Arab slave raid, is to <*^jn long tvv enty-foui poundei weighing is a wall the whole length of the that could be worked were continual a few minutes another and another to play a petty part, he has made for fully to the charges brought against prostitute language. ^'jS ly employed. The long gun, at the ventured up, and they began to walk himself a great one. Constitutional it, but no reply will silence its ac about three tons This puvateer sailed tow n the fort in the center On these second fire, lan off the slide, being aft, but stepped as if walking on eggs. Here I may well pause. I have cer- **^^% from Sandv Hook on Sept 9, at 10 p hills were to be seen all the inhabi ruler of a small European state, he cusers. They want the Congo's riches, tainly told enough to prove that sue- f^Mm m, commanded by Samuel C Reid, tants, men, women and children, ladies fired with taut breeching. This gun At this moment a man standing upon might well have passed his life in end not its king's defense, and will con jumped the slide off the pivot, and the wall, abreast of the Armstrong, less trivialities, in holding tiresome re cess, not failure, has attended King (-jjp!|j with a ciew of ninety seamen in their white dresses, fiom one ex landed the permillion on the larboard called out, "Fire the train' Fire the tinue clamoring until the utter futil Leopold's work as a pioneer of civiliza- <fi< and officers mostly from the states tremity to the other, making a most bulwarks, making a point blank aim at train'" It was not repeated the sec views and still more tiresome recep ity of their shouting threats at Leo tion. Still there is much that I have ?3|g! of Connecticut and Massachusetts beautiful appearance in the bright the enemy In this position she was ond time before the men jumped over tions, in the pronouncement of te pold is brought home to them Al left untold, of the railways, the steam- '* Jy| At 2 a m we found ourselves In the moonlight Those people—the whole fired five times into the sloop, doing board and the boat pulled away for dious speeches.as soporific as they were ready they have prepared a map, a boat services, the motor services, the •*$• "* centei of the blockading squadron inhabitants of this beautiful town— gieat execution, at the sixth fire, dear life. wise. Nominally a flgui ehead, he could copy of which is before me as I write, post, the telegraphs, the botanic gar- V| consisting of thiee line-of-battle ships had taken theii stations on these hills the gun dismounted and broke In the have secured untroubled ease by re of the Free State of the Congo paiti- dens, the model farms, the forest sei v- -fJH;| one lazee, two frigates and two sloops to see a conflict, such as they had Mr. Parkman, the English consul, maining one, and universal praise by, tloned out as they wish The districts never befoie witnessed deck At length it was thought best hailed the boat, and told them not to drifting on every popularity current. to be offered as bribes to France and ice, the workshops, the schools, the * ^J, of wai Our only wav to escape was to partially destroy her and jump be afraid, as there were no Yankees hospitals, the orphanages, the trades, ^ by turning to windward, and thanks At 12 m n, the sloop of war stood overboard, which was acordingly done Such arts as win kings' popularity Germany are duly marked on it, but the commerce! * " f ^ in for the town, towing at her stern on board On learning this the Eng are easy, a royal smile makes foemen they are small. The plotters do not to the General's heels and good luck by firing a 9-pound shot thru her bot lish returned and boarded her. They Atrocities Admitted. " « and management we worked her out fourteen boats manned and armed for tom found her on the bottom, about half partizans, a cross or a ribbon, be hide their hands, they show clearly from the midst of them At 10 a m action These boats contained, from full of water, they then set fire to stowed by a king, brings gushing grati that England, and England's puppet Of the atrocities committed in the '< we were five miles to the windwaid of the best accounts we could get, 400 This last act was performed by an her and left her, and thus ended the tude to him King Leopold in the Egypt is to take the lion's share. Congo I need not speak The gov- u the enemy's weathermost ship.