ANGOLA
e • • I ALLEGATIONS OF SLAVERY. d r Pre*J A»aociation—By Telegraph—Copyright. ■ GENEVA, July 14. (Received July 14, at 11 p.m.) Professor Boss and Dr Grammer, ,x>th of whom are Americans, report to the League of Nations that the requisitioned labour in Angola (Portuguese East Africa! is worse than old 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 a? it is 8 taken by the officials. The workers are living in a chronic state of s«mi-starvation. 8 They are without the time and strength to cultivate their fields. The mortality - rate is increasing. The native policemen are the real rulers of the country.—R.euter.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19532, 15 July 1925, Page 7
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