AMAZON RUBBER HORRORS.
NO CRUELTIES NOW. INDIANS' DOtTBTTin, FUTUBE. (Received 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, April 6. A Blue Book has been issued stating that the British Consul at Equitas toured Putumayo with the American Consul. There is no evidence of present cruelties The Amazon Company r s policy has iin- '. proved, but the fate of the Indians is , almost wholly in the hands of the com- [■ pany, whose future is doubtful. Owing to the poverty of the company the dis-
trict is in a critical condition. -The r Amazon rubber market, combined v.itb the financial and political exigencies of the Peruvian Government, provides grave .j obstacles to practical reforms
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 82, 7 April 1913, Page 5
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108AMAZON RUBBER HORRORS. Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 82, 7 April 1913, Page 5
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