SLAVE-RUNNERS IN RED SEA.
According to a London, newspaper thousands: of negroes are still sold into' slavery bv the slave-runners of the Red Sea. despite the nnti-slav»r.v patrol of the British Naw. The reason is that it is difficult to patrol these waters. Between Saukin and Jedda the Red Sea .is nearly 200 miles wide and over 1200 mles long. The Navy provides two small sloops of about 1000 tons, with a speed of 16 knots, and mounting 4-inch guns. The “Nautical Magazine recently published an account by an eye-witness —an office- of the mercantile marine—in mart of which he stated: “Imagine a big dhow racing across from Africa, going like n destroyer with a wind on her beam. As we closed with her we could hear heartrending cries coming down wind, and could see that she was packed from end to end of her open waist with stalwart negroes seated on thwarts or benches, evidently fastened by their ankles.” Fart of tne work of the League of Nations la to stamp out this vile business.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 188, 8 May 1934, Page 2
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