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The story of the Congo Free State

Chapter 83: PRINCIPAL CONGO OFFICIALS IN BRUSSELS, CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION
By Henry Wellington Wack
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The author traces the conception and establishment of the central African territory administered under King Leopold II, recounting exploratory missions led by Stanley and outlining the legal and diplomatic framework formed by treaties and the Berlin Conference. He surveys river navigation, transport and infrastructure projects, campaigns against the Arab slave trade and local uprisings, and the organization of colonial administration, the public force, revenue systems, concessions, missions, schools, and scientific and agricultural initiatives. The work collects testimony and responses to international criticism and concludes with a retrospective assessment and forward-looking appraisal.

PRINCIPAL CONGO OFFICIALS IN BRUSSELS, CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION

Ministers of State: Baron van Eetvelde, Chevalier Descamps.
Treasurer-General: M. H. Pochez.
Secretaries-General: M. le Chevalier A. de Cuvelier, Department of Foreign Affairs and Justice; M. H. Droogmans, Department of Finances; Commandant C. H. Liebrechts, Department of the Interior.
Directors: M. A. Baerts, Chef de Cabinet; M. N. Arnold, Auditor; M. Ed. Kervyn, Director of the Department of Foreign Affairs; M. de Keuzer, Director of the Department of Finances; Le Major Lombard, and Commandant F. Lebrun, Directors of the Department of the Interior.
Chief of Division: M. G. Olyff, Chief of Division of the Department of Foreign Affairs.

OFFICIALS OF THE LOCAL ADMINISTRATION OF THE CONGO FREE STATE

Governor-General: Général Baron Wahis.
Vice-Governors-General: Fuchs, Wangermée, Costermans.
Secretary-General: Van Damme.
Directors: Of Justice: A. Gohr.
Of Finance: Delhaye.
Of Agriculture: Brohée.
Of Public Works: Itten.
Court of Appeal: President, Interior Administration: Baron G. Nisco.
Judges: Horstmans, A. Gohr.
Court of First Instance: Judge: T. Beeckman.
Prosecuting Attorney: F. Waleffe.
Magistrates (Territorial Judges and Substitutes): See Chapter XXII.
Public Force: Commander-in-Chief: Major Warnant.
Chief of the District of Boma, Costermans.
Banana, Dr. Cassé.
Matadi, Derache.
The Cataracts, Delhaye.
Stanley Pool, Mahieu.
Lake Leopold II., Storms.
The Equateur, Stevens.
The Bangalas, Gérard.
The Ubanghi, Bertrand.
The Uelle, Wacquez.
Chief of the Zone: Rubi Uelle, Pourbaix.
Uere Bomu, Holm.
Bomokandi, Saroléa.
Gurba Dungu, Samaes.
Enclave of Lado, Seresche.
Chief of the District of the   Aruwimi, Pimpurniaux.
Lualaba, Chenot.
Kwango, Duvivier.
Oriental Prov., De Meulemeester.
Chief of the Zone of Haut-Ituri, Engh.
Ponthierville, Cordella.
Manyema, Verdick.
Stanley Falls, Federspiel.
Ruzizi-Kivu, Tombeur.

THE BELGIAN MINISTER TO THE UNITED STATES

Baron Ludovic Moncheur, Belgian Legation, Washington, D.C.

Baron Moncheur graduated at the University of Louvain (Belgium) in philosophy, letters, and law, with the highest honours. He entered the diplomatic service of Belgium at the age of twenty-five, and was successively Attaché to the Belgian Legation at The Hague in 1883; Second Secretary, Belgian Legation at Vienna, 1885; First Secretary, Belgian Legation at Berlin, 1887; Counsellor of the Belgian Legation at Rome, 1892; Chargé d’Affaires at Luxembourg, 1897; Minister Resident of Belgium to Mexico, 1898; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Belgium to the United States, 1901. He is a member of the Geographical Society of Antwerp, and author of La Terre chaude Mexicaine and From Tampico to the Pacific.

The Baroness Moncheur is a daughter of the Hon. Powell Clayton, United States Minister to Mexico.