RED RUBBER.
THE PUTUMAYO OUTRAGES. United Prets Association— By El«otrii Teleg.apa—Copyright. LONDON, November 27. At the enquiry into the Putumayo outrages, Mr Barnes, who visited Putumayo on behalf of the British Amazon Company, stated that tho system of forced labour was indistinguishable from slavery. He agreed that some of the local managers were murderers, bandits, and pirates, and were criminally culpable, but he would not say the same of the British directors, though they ought to have known the condition of affairs.
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Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14525, 29 November 1912, Page 7
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