Word: africa
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...lack of money, due to the indifference of the rich Jewish bankers and the petty dissensions among his followers, who at the end, defeat him and his cause. Lack of funds compels him to abandon his pro- jected colony in Palestine and turn to the more accessible land of Africa. His followers, however, refuse to accept any substitution for the Promised Land, and at the very moment of his supposed triumph, turn against him. The tragedy of his defeat is enhanced by his enforced separation from the woman he loves, who is a Christian and, for that reason, hated...
...Peter Moor's Journey to Southwest Africa," by Gustave Frennsen...
...result of a talk by the Rev. Joseph Clark That Astounded and shocked an audience in the Living Room of the Union last evening, a pettion against the fearful atrocities that are now being perpetrated against the natives in the Upper Congo region of Africa has been placed in the Union office. To anyone who did not hear Mr. Clark's bloodcurding narrative no wards depict the cuetly and the inhuman tortures by which these wretched beings are compelled to slave for King Leopold of Belglum, which would render practical unattainable the cause to which Mr. Clark is devoting...
...Tardieu's lectures have covered the subject of France and her international politics. He is particularly fitted to speak on these topics as he is not only the foreign editor of the Paris "Temps," but was at one time the Governor of the French colonies in Africa...
...senses, and a request for a conference was sent to France. France insisted on her special privileges in Morocco, which were of long standing, and in the conference which finally settled the difficulty these rights of France were recognized and Germany agreed to withdraw from her position in northern Africa...