Place
Antwerp
Belgian port where the Congo State's rubber was sold.
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The Congo Free State said in 1903 that 5,000 tons of Congo rubber were sold at Antwerp each year. The Commission of Inquiry left from Antwerp on 15 September 1904.
Connections 2
involved in
- Commission of Inquiry of the Congo Free State (1904-05) Primary record 1
appears in
- Casement Report (1904) where the State's rubber was sold Primary record 2
Proof 2 sources
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The Congo: a report of the Commission of Enquiry appointed by the Congo Free State government (English translation, 1906), Commission of Enquiry of the Congo Free State, translated by G. P. Putnam's Sons (Project Gutenberg), 30 Oct 1905.
Primary record
The Commission left Antwerp the 15th day of September, 1904, and arrived at Boma on October 5th, 1904.
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Correspondence and Report from His Majesty's Consul at Boma respecting the Administration of the Independent State of the Congo (Africa No. 1, 1904), with the Congo State's note of 17 September 1903 and its annexes, Parliament of the United Kingdom, Accounts and Papers 1904 (Internet Archive copy), Feb 1904.
Primary record
5,000 tons of rubber from the Congo forests are sold every year at Antwerp to the highest bidder.
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