CANNIBALISM.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18676, 27 April 1926, Page 9

CANNIBALISM.

REPORTS CHALLENGED. (BT CABLE —PRESB ASSOCIATION—COPYBIQHT.) (ADBTBALJAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, April 25. Lady Dorothy Mills, who after her return from Liberia, spoke of cannibalism there, has been challenged to verify her statements by the president of the Union of Coloured Students of African Descent, who declared that these "hackneyed stories of cannibalism are untrue." Lady Dorothy Mills maintains her point, declaring that cannibalism exists inland, far from the civilised coastal areas. [Lady Dorothy Mills is a well-known author and traveller. She is tho eldest daughter of the Earl of Oxford, and in IDI6 married Captain A. H. Mills, of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. She has travelled extensively from earliest childhood, and in February, 1923, was the first Englishwoman to visit Timbuktu. She has written several books, including The Tent of Blue," "The Road," "The Arms of the Sun," and "The Dark Gods."]