INHUMAN TREATMENT
WHERE THE iSLAME LIES
Ctleceived November 25th, 11.25 p.m.) LONDON, November 25. Mr Woodroofe, who supplied reports to tho Anti-Slavery Society, spent eight years on the Bolivian frontier, most of the time in the rubDcr trade. Fifteen or twenty firms dealing direct with Europe were concerned in tho peonage system. One employer who had six workmen sick of beri-Deri fever told them he would oTHy r'eecJ .two folk who worked. Tho sick men were placed on a rock in tho rapids, and swept away when tho river roso. The Brazilian authorities opened an enquiry, but influenco procured a cessation of the investigation. Mr Woodroofo saw a boy flogged so severely that an eye was torn out. The Peruvian and Bolivian Governments are more directly responsible. Brazil is tho only State seriously attempting to protect the natives. Young children and girls aro sold into slavery.
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14833, 26 November 1913, Page 9
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146INHUMAN TREATMENT Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14833, 26 November 1913, Page 9
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