RUBBER HORRORS.
' INDIANS VALUED -LIKE SLAVES.
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' , London, January 22. Mr. Read, a director of the Putflinayo Rubber Company, in hjs evidence before tho committee which is inquiring into the alleged atrocities, admitted that, .€11,400 appearing in the company's accounts was' devoted towards repressing tho Indians; also that ether items ;\\cro foT tho payment of persons keeping tho Indians prisoners. '
/.The Chairman of the Committee. remarked thntthe accounts showed that the Indians.' were'; valued like '.slaves, at XlO
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1656, 24 January 1913, Page 5
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115RUBBER HORRORS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1656, 24 January 1913, Page 5
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