BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION ALLEGED SLAVERY. (Received This Day at 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, Jan 20. A correspondent of the Westminster Gazette who lately returned from Abyssinia declares the worst forms of slavery are rampant in Adishabeba, surrounded by openjiendish cruelty, Which is hardly discountenanced by the foreign offices of European Powers. The writer states he saw a convoy of ten thousand slaves, men chained together in a row with women and children dragging alongside the main body. In the course of a day’s march ho counted fifty dead, or dying, along the trail. Some of these slaves were captured on Abyssinian territory and others in British East Africa and others in AngloEgyptian Soudan. There have also been several raids into Kenya colony.

EMPIRE EXHIBITION

LONDON, January 18.

The Colonial Institute entertained the British Exhibtion Mission at a luncheon on the eve of their departure for South Africa and Australia. Mr Belcher, replyin on behalf of the Mission, said the King had expressed the warmest interest in the Exhibition, which he hoped would assist in a revival of trade. His Majesty felt assured that the cordal co-operation of the overseas Dominions would be forthcoming.