THE RUBBER TRADE.
ABOMINABLE ATROCITIES. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, July 14. A Blue Book contains a report from Sir Roger Casement, British Consul at Para, in which he specifically charges the agents of many Peruvian and Amazon companies with wholesale and unpunished atrocities, flogging British West Indians and native Indians who wers collecting rubber, and inducing women and children to do so, cutting oil' ears, arms and legs, and leaving the victims to die. pouring kerosene over men and women and setting fire to them, and other unthinkable cruelties. Sir Edward Grey's demand to Peru for drastic measures of reform had no result beyond promises; hence the pub- | lie ity.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 49, 16 July 1912, Page 5
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110THE RUBBER TRADE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 49, 16 July 1912, Page 5
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