AMAZING REVELATIONS.
SHOCKING TREATMENT- "OF
WORKERS,
SUICIDE OF WHITE AGENTS
(Received November 25, 8.45 a.m.)
LONDON, November 24
In connection with the Herii (South America) horrors, a book called "The Green Hill" is exciting attention in Brazil. The cover portrays a na,ked Indian woman scored with cuts, whence her life blood is drained into little tin cups used by the rubber collectors.
The book describes how South Brazilian natives are persuaded to work in the Upper Amazon. They are domiciled in a forest clearing, where they stop till' they die as they are put into debt for clothes arid fpod, and are unable to secure sufficient rubber to pay off the ruinous cost of foods supplied. The density of the jungle renders escape impossible.
A traveller who voyaged from the Amazon to Bolivia states that 500 lashes are 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. ,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8724, 25 November 1913, Page 5
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