SLAVERY ABOLITION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 199, 24 July 1931, Page 7

SLAVERY ABOLITION.

j HOUSE OF LORDS’ ATTITUDE. (British Official Wireless.) Received July 24, 8.5 a.m. RUGBY, July 22. The House of Lords unanimously passed a resolution which, while recognising tlio action already taken by the League of Nations regarding slavery, recorded the opinion that further steps of a definite nature for the abolition of slave-owning and trading were an\apparent international duty. The motion was proposed by Lord Buxton, who expressed the view that if slave trading were declared to be piracy it would soon disappear. He advocated the creation qf an information office under the Leiguc.

The Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Lugard supported tlie motion, and in accepting it on behalf of the Government Lord Parmoor referred to the ’co-operation" in the Rod Sea between the British, Italian, and French navies in preventing the transferring of slaves to Arabia. | Lord Cecil urged the appointment of I a permanent commission to assist the League’s efforts in the matter. The difficulty was that certain countries resented interference with their own [ affairs, and it was important to make it clear that this was not intended.