THE RUBBER ATROCITIES.
GERMAN PRESS ATTACKS BRITAIN. By Telegraph—Press Association—GoDyriEbt (Etc. July 20, 0.15 a.m.) London, July 19. The newspapers, in commenting cm tie report of Sir Eoger Casement, British Consul-Goneral at Bio do Janioro, on the Peruvian rubber atrocities, assume that, though nono of the Putumayo murderers were British subjects, they wore whites, and most of them Englishmen. They accuse the latter of murdering thirty.thousand natives in eix years. The "Neueste Nachrichten," and the "Reiohsbote" declare that the butcheries are an indelible blot on. the British name, putting the Congo atrocities in the 6hado. The "Gtermania" attacks the British Pn£ testant Bible lovers for calumniating Catholic Belgium over the' Congo hor•rors.
The "Neueste Nachrichten" ie a Berlin journal owned by Krupp's armour-plate and gun foundry, and_ is Bfcrongly Anglophobe and bellicose in tone. The,"Germania" is a Clerical journal.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1497, 20 July 1912, Page 5
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139THE RUBBER ATROCITIES. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1497, 20 July 1912, Page 5
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