GRUESOME DEEDS
-LIBERIAN MASSACRES ALLEGED.
(United Press Association.—By Electru Telegraph.—Copyright.)
litecemd this day at 1‘2.25. p.m.i
GENEVA, May 18
The killing and burning alive of men, women, and children, and the firing of forty-two villages, are among, the charges against Liberian authorities and admitted by the Liberian delegation, which asserted that measures were necessary to maintain order. Eighty-one men, forty-nine women, and twenty-nine children were known to have been massacred, and many are believed to have been burned. The committee dealing with Liberian affairs resolved urgently to recommend the Council to send a representative to Kru Coast to assist in the pacification of the country and eft* courage the tribes to return to their villages under conditions of security.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1932, Page 6
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