"The Green Hell!"

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 72, 25 November 1913, Page 5

"The Green Hell!"

UNSPEAKABLE HORRORS.

MORE RUBBER STORIES. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] [Received 8.4 d a.m.) London, November 24. In connection with the Beni horrors, a book called ‘‘The Green Hell,” is exciting attention in Brazil. The cover portrays a waited Indian woman scored with cuts whence her n'o blood is drained into Jiltie tin cups such as are used by rubber collectors. The book describes how the South Brazilian natives are persuaded to work in the Upper Amazon. They are domiciled in a forest clearing, where they stop tilt they die, as they are put into debt for cloches and food, and are unable to secure sufficient rubber to pay off the ruinous cost of the ioods supplied.

Ihe density of the jungle renders

escape impossible. A traveller who voyaged from the Amazon to Bolivia, states that dOO lashes is a common punishment. A woman was cruelly beaten at Beni for upsetting lamps. There are no missionaries or travellers in the district

to report the. tragedies. One feature of the traffic is the frequent suicide of despairing white agents.

UNSPEAKABLE CRUELTIES.

London,

November 24

The Anti-Slavery Society has forwarded to the Foreign Office the depositions of the English traveller Deniacre, in the regions of South America, alleging horrors surpassing those of the Putumayo rubber plantations. He declares that peonage exists there and there is more cruel slavery, flogging of women and murders of Indian rubber workers and common British subjects and that capital is deeply involved. Mr Dcniacre invites a Government inquiry.