SLAVE TRADE
„it£D FOR REPRESSIVE ACTION
/tiuiuxi Pleas Association —By Electric ielegrupli. —V-'OpJ' l ' l ii )i *'-i LONDON, July 22. The House of Lords unanimously passed a resolution, which, while ieco o uising the action already taken by the League of Nations regarding slavery., recorded-the opinion that further steps of a- definite nature Jfor the abolition of slave-owning and trading, were an apparent international duty. ilie motion was proposed by Lord Buxton, who expressed the view that ii slave' trading were reclined to be piracy, it would soon disappear. He advocated the creation of an Information Office under the League. The Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Lugard supported the motion, in accepting which, for the Government Lord Parmour referred to the co-opera-tion in the Rod Sea between the British, Italian and French navies in preventing the transferring of slaves to Arabia. Lord Cecil urged the appointment of a Permanent Commissioner to assist the League’s efforts in the matter. The difficulty was that certain countries resented interference with their own affairs, which, it was important to make clear, was not intended.'
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1931, Page 6
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181SLAVE TRADE Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1931, Page 6
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