SLAVE-GROWN COCOA.
AN ACTION FOR LIBEL. Unit-d Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 2. Messrs Cadbury Brothers are suing the 'Standard" for a libel published on September 28th, 1908, commenting on Cadbury's delay in ceasing to purchase Principe and San Thome slave-grown cocoa. Sir Edward Grey, in his evidence, stated that Mr Cadbury asked him to take steps to stop th© scandal in 1906, and h© advised the firm not to agitate publicly until the Foreign Office had e,pproached Portugal. Attention has been drawn to the state of slavery in these Portuguese islands off the West Coast of Africa, principally by the articles of Mr H. Nevinson and by the report of Mr Joseph Burtt, who was sent out there by Cadbury's and other cocoa firms, to investigate the allegations made. Mr Cadbury himself went to Portuguese West Africa last year tOutry to induce the authorities to introduce reforms. His firm and several others decided to use no cocoa from the islands.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13597, 4 December 1909, Page 9
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