CRUELTY TO NATIVES.
BY PORTUGUESE SOLDIERS. NATIVE HELPERS IMPRISONED. By Cable.—-Press' Association. —Copyright, (Received May 2 5, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 22. The Rev ; J. S. Bowskill, in a letter to the Baptist Missionary Society, states that the native helpers are still imprisoned without trial. They weir !e, Closely confined for five days without food or water. ~,,, The Portuguese soldiers 'have burnt the native villages and the .t mission chapels which were built by the native converts. [On February 26 a cable message from Lisbon stated that the Portuguese authorities had arrested the Rev. J. S. Bowskill, an English Baptist missionary at San Salvador, in connection with the recruitment of native .labour, for the Cocos Island. Mr Bowskill was subsequently released.]
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 92, 25 May 1914, Page 7
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