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counts for the many contradictory state- 
ments as to what would benefit these 
tribes most and what might be their 
greatest grievances. 
The missionary societies in many 
cases receive special subsidies and are 
teaching mainly elementary classes in 
principal centers such as Boma and 
Stanleyville, some extending facilities 
for certain branches of industrial train- 
ing. A really unified system of educa- 
tion can be introduced only when the 
facilities of communication lead to a 
greater centralization of the now widely 
scattered population. 
It is probable that the present war- 
fare in Central Africa, and especially 
in the Congo Basin, will prove relatively 
more disastrous to the black race of these 
regions than the European war to the 
different nations engaged therein; in 
spite of the fact that the belligerents 
on both sides have given out orders to 
the native soldiery to direct their princi- 
pal aim to the destruction of the com- 
manding white officers, so that it is not 
remarkable that only very few black 
men have been killed in the various en- 
gagements. Neither firearms nor 
plosives will play havoc among the 
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natives, but unfortunately the greater 
part of the territory in which this war- 
fare is waged includes the districts most 
affected by the terrible sleeping-sickness, 
such as the Uganda, Tanganyika, Kat- 
anga and Sanga frontiers. Thousands 
of armed natives will certainly be in- 
fected before their dispersal at the con- 
clusion of the war. They will carry 
this dread disease into nearly every re- 
gion. Since the tsetse flies, the carriers 
of the sleeping-sickness germs, are widely 
distributed they will cause the rapid 
spread of this plague, for if they have an 
opportunity to suck the blood of only 
one infected person they may cause dis- 
aster by transmitting the disease to others 
living nearby. Once a region is thor- 
oughly infected the natives are simply 
wiped out. This condition is the more 
hopeless since the usual prophylactic 
measures are considerably weakened as a 
result of the war and there is thus prac- 
tically no hope of checking the scourge; 
for it needs the most exacting efforts of a 
well-equipped medical service, which en- 
tails an enormous expenditure. Most 
authorities believe that after the conclu- 
sion of peace there will be no large funds 
available for the benefit of African colonies. 
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