BOLIVIAN CONCESSION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 117, 14 April 1930, Page 7

BOLIVIAN CONCESSION.

ALLEGATIONS OF FRAUD. Allegations of fraudulent misrepresentations, whereby European settlers were induced to emigrate fc> Bolivia and to attempt to make a living there under cruel conditions, were made in thb King’s Bench Division in London. Robert Sohr, formerly emigration officer of Bolivian Concessions, Ltd., sued the company and directors for alleged fraudulent conspiracy, and also for wrongful dismissal. Plaintiff’s case, his counsel said, ivas trat the company proposed to establish a port in Bolivia, to organise docks, warehouses, and a steamship lino, and also to settle on its concession thousands of Spanish, Italian, and other European families. The British Consul at La Paz cabled that the concession consisted of swampy land which was inundated "for six months every. for Sohr told the Court that his client became so worried about his inability to obtain exact information of local conditions that he decided, oh his own responsibility, to go to Bolivia, after the directors had refused to send him. It was a horrible journey, owing to dysentery and insects.