RUBBER SCANDALS
CONDITIONS IMPROVING. REPORT BY AMERICAN CONSUL. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) WASHINGTON, February 8. The American Consul, Mr Fuller, reports that'the conditions prevailing at Pntumayo have greatly improved. The Peruvian Minister, he says, announced that his Government has decided to establish missions throughout the affected districts, and to co-oper-ate with the Roman Catholic Hierarchy to improve the status of the Indian aborigines. The Peruvian Government is erecting wireless stations to keep in touch with Pntumayo, and whenever culprits are found they will .be prosecuted. :Mr Fuller finds that a. section of the chiefs employed by the Rubber Company were responsible for the atrocities. .Several chiefs have admitted culpability, and say the Tt.dk.ris were bought and.sold to settle ordinary debts. A. state of espionage prevails, and spies were everywhere employed by the company, who used every effort to prevent investigation.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 10 February 1913, Page 5
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141RUBBER SCANDALS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 10 February 1913, Page 5
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