TO END SLAVERY.
SURPRISE MOVE AT GENEVA
TRAFFIC CLASSED WITH PIRACY
GENEVA, Sep, 11. Lord Cecil, on behalf of the British delegation, unexpectedly submitted to the League Assembly proposals for the eventual abolition of slavery, including domestic slavery, throughout the world. At the meeting of the League Committee no serious objections were raised, but the Portuguese and others emphasised the importance of not moving too rapidly. It. is understood that the proposals are regarded as the most important of the kind since the Brussels Act of 1890. They provide for th© severe punishment of anyone who attempts to engage in the slave traffic in any signatory State. They will classify slave-trading with piracy, and declare that a. slave vessel shall be treated; as a pirate.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 14 September 1925, Page 9
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125TO END SLAVERY. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 14 September 1925, Page 9
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