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United States Urged to Intervene Over Congo Abuses
Prominent New Yorkers led by J Pierpont Morgan and Dr Lyman Abbott petition Secretary of State Elihu Root to use moral support of the United States to press Congo Free State reforms. The letter cites a labor tax, land seizures, brutal sentries, child labor, judiciary abuses, punitive expeditions, and company mistreatment, urging swift action to prevent further inhumanity. Actor Neil Florence found dead in his West 23d Street boarding house with gas leaks from open jets, a Christmas dinner planned by fellow actors disrupted.
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