A SCATHING REPORT.
PUTUMAYO ATROCITIES. A SPIRIT OF WANTON DEVILRY. (Received 9.0 a.m.) London, June 9.< The report of the Committee which inquired into the Putumayo atrocities has been issued. It severely censures the British directors for culpable negligence in regard to the labor Conditions exacted from the Indians. The directors should . rijot lightly have exposed England's good name to contempt. The illtreatment of the Indians was not confined to Putumayo, which was only a shockingly bad instance of the conditions existing over a wide area in South America. the officers of the company were a 'gang of ruffians and murderers, who'shot their victims from sheer lust of blood, and burned and tortured and violated them in a spirit of wanton devilry.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 30, 10 June 1913, Page 5
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122A SCATHING REPORT. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 30, 10 June 1913, Page 5
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