"The right to direct military offensive operations or to make war on the natives, but gives them only the power to requisition, for the maintenance or establishment of order, the armed force which may be either in or without the concession, subject to the reservation that the officers of the State shall retain the command of the troops."
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Abstract of the report of the Commission of enquiry into the administration of the Congo Free State, Page 48. the Governor-General Théophile Wahis in a circular of the 20th October, 1900.
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