CHINAMAN'S WHITE SLAVES.

Mataura Ensign, 2 November 1911, Page 6

CHINAMAN'S WHITE SLAVES.

WEIRD NEW ORLEANS STORY. Charged with having maintained a system of slavery over white men in the fishing settlements of the Barataria Bar section, famous as the headquarters of the noted pirate Lafittes, J. Jung Lee, a wealthy Chinaman, is under arrest at New Orleans. j Nine Americans, who say they were shipped out of New Orleans and kept' under bondage, were brought back as witnesses by the Government agents who arrested Lee. Inconceivable tales of barbarous treatment, which included working 30 hours without rest on a diet of rice and 1 water, are related by the Americans. Scores of other white men are said to be similarly imprisoned in the fishing settlements, which are located near the Gulf of Mexico in a wild inaccessible country.