BOLIVIAN WILDS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17232, 11 April 1930, Page 11

BOLIVIAN WILDS

MISERY FOR MIGRANTS SENSATIONAL CHARGES LONDON', April '-• Allegations of fraudulent misrepresentations, whereby European settlers were induced to emigrate to Bolivia and to attempt to make a living there under cruel conditions, were made in the King's Bench Division to-day, when Robert Xohr, formerly the emigration officer of Bolivian ( oucessions, Ltd., sued Ihe company and directors for alleged fraudulent conspiracy, and also for wrongful dismissal. Plaintiff's case, his counsel said, was that the company proposed to establish a port in Bolivia, to organise docks, warehouses, and a steamship line, and also to settle on its concession thousands of Spanish. Italian, mid other European families. The British Consul at La Paz cabled that the concession consisted of swampy ground, inundated for .six months of uverv vear. Counsel for Sohr told the court that Sohr became so worried about his inability to obtain exact information 0 f i o cal' conditions that he decided, -on his own responsibility, to go to Bolivia, jitter the directors had refused to send him, II was a horrible journey, owing to dvsentl t'V and insect s.