“WORSE THAN SLAVERY”
C ONDITIONS IN RORTUGUESI EAST AFRICA
ALLEGATIONS BY AMERICANS
(By Electric Telegraph. -Copyright.) (Aubtrali'Mn & N.Z. Cable Association.)
GENEVA, July 14
Professor Ross anil Or. C>rummer, Americans, ipport to- the League that requisitioned labour in Angola, Portuguese East Africa, is worse than the 6LI domestic slavery. Soldiers carry off from their homes men, women and children, and make them work on the roads. The money the planters pay seldom reaches the workers. It is taken by officials, The workers are living in a chronic state of semi-starvation. "1 hey are without time and strength to cultivate the fields. Mortality is increasing. Native policemen are the real rulers of the country.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 15 July 1925, Page 5
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