Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1913 — Congo Free State. [ARTICLE]

Congo Free State.

The Congo Free State in midAfrica has 900,00 square miles of territory. At present Its Imports amount to only about $4,000,000 a year, conaistlng mainly of cottonpiece goods, liquors and beer, canned meats, vegetables and other food products, steamers and boats, machinery, clothing, arms and ammunition, hardware and metals. The chief products of the country are rubber, Ivory, gum copal, palm kernels and palm oil.