SLAVERY IN LIBERIA
RESIGNATION OF OFFICIALS LEAGUE OF NATIONS INQUIRY (United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, 3rd January. The “News-Chronicle” correspondent at Geneva says as the result of the findings of the League’s international inquiry into slavery in Liberia, the President of Liberia, C. D. B. King, and Vice-Presi-dent, Alan Yancy, resigned. King nominated the Secretary of State, Mr Edwin Barclay, as Acting-President. The commission’s report states that Yancy sanctioned the compulsory recruitment of labour for road construction and shipment abroad. The report condemns the use of the Liberian frontier force for conveying gangs of captured natives to the coast for shipment. It is estimated that 400,000 of the 2,500_,000 population are living in conditions of slavery. King, though unaware of Yancy’s action, considered his own resignation obligatory.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 5 January 1931, Page 5
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