CHAPTER XIII

BELGIAN AFRICA

The work of Cambier and Storms—Comité d’Études du Haut Congo—H. M. Stanley founds the Congo Independent State—its subsequent history—Long struggle with the Arabs—Captain Hinde—Baron Dhanis—Rumoured atrocities—Katanga—Extension to the White Nile—Murder of Mr Stokes—Railway to Stanley Pool—Denunciation of King Leopold’s maladministration by E. D. Morel—Congo Reform movement—Belgian annexation of Congo State 342