AFRICAN SLAVERY.
ANGLO-FRENCH CO-OPERATION IN ITS SUPPRESSION. Captain J. Tilho, speaking at the Royal Geographical ijociety on the French mission to Lake Chad, one of tho objects of which is the definition of the frontier between the French and British spheres from tho Niger to Lake Chad, said:— "It is specially to England and France that the dnty belongs to achieve the suppression of sTavery in those regions which lie in their zone o£ protection. But, to obtain that result, two paramount conditions are absolutely necessary—a thorough co-operation in the means of working towards that aim between England and France and also Germany,, and to proceed, as soon as it will be possible, to the effective occupation of the respective British and French territory lying between Lnko Chad and the j\ile." It is a great task which civilisation imposes upon England and France in that part of tho world, and I do not think it is too much to say that our honour as civilised countries is at stake on il."
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 787, 9 April 1910, Page 12
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171AFRICAN SLAVERY. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 787, 9 April 1910, Page 12
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