SLAVES SET FREE
PROMPT ACTION BY BRITAIN PRAISE GIVEN AT GENEVA British Official Wireless. Reed. noon. RUGBY, Monday. Commenting on the report on slavery submitted by Mr. G. T. LockerLampson, the British Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, before the Sixth Committee of the League of Nations at Geneva, this morning, M. Rappard, the Swiss delegate, called particular attention to the fact that since the last session slavery had been completely abolished in the Sierra Leone Protectorate, through the most active and prompt action of the British Government. He recalled how within only two months of the judicial decision being given concerning the rights of owners over slaves, the Council of Sierra Leone voted the law finally emancipating all the slaves in the Protectorate, numbering some 100,000. Mr. Locker-Lampson was unanimously appointed reporter of the slavery question before the Assembly.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 462, 18 September 1928, Page 9
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138SLAVES SET FREE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 462, 18 September 1928, Page 9
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