Confirming Dr. Roth.
The Earlier Allegations. Some two years ago a sensation was made throughout the Empire by the revelations by Dr. Roth, an ethnological student asked by the West Australian Government to report on allegations as to the ill-treatment of the aborigines of the State. While admitting that in the settled districts there was no direct proof of actual physical cruelty to the blacks, Dr. Roth considered that there was much oppression and injustice; while in the backblocks there were evidences of “ cruelties and abuses that can no longer be hidden or tolerated.” Besides many allegations of minor cruelties Dr. Roth refers to oases in which children of tender years and helpless old men have been dragged before the Courts charged with killing cattle, and have been starved and beaten on the road, and forced to plead guilty or to give the required evidence by threats of shooting. In the gaols, said Dr. Roth, the blacks were loaded with neck-chains and manacles," often weighing five pounds or morlf and were compelled to wear their fetters for years.
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Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 39, 14 May 1907, Page 4
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