72 (No. 99 ECONOMIC CONDITIONS which is connected by means of an overland line with Loanda, a cable station on the Portuguese Angola coast . Matadi and Noki are now connected by wire. Matadi is also connected with Boma, and Boma with the Eastern Telegraph Company's cable system . The charge per word between Brussels and Boma is 5.85 francs , with half-rates for Belgian Government and press telegrams.

There is no wireless station in the Congo powerful enough to send messages to Belgium without the assistance of some intermediate station, nor was the Laeken station in Brussels able to send as far as the Congo.

(B) INDUSTRY (1 ) LABOUR The white man in the Congo State used to compel and now attempts to persuade the native to work. The labour demand affects the native in two ways ; it makes serious calls upon his physical vigour and heavy inroads into his time. Unless the employer supplements the native diet and arranges that there shall be sufficient native labour available for the necessary forest clearing and tillage, so as to ensure a harvest adequate to the needs of each village, he may involuntarily cause considerable suffering. The white man frequently makes excessive demands upon the natives to supply food -stuffs for his own consumption or that of his labourers. A striking example occurred in the case of the Baholoholo, a tribe to the west of Lake Tanganyika, whose fate is summarized in the phrase, un peuple qui meurt. Formerly they possessed large herds of cattle ; owing to the demands of the white men at a neighbouring post, these cattle are now extinct.