SUPPRESSING SLAVERY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18761, 18 July 1935, Page 5

SUPPRESSING SLAVERY

WORK OF TEE LEAGUE ' DISCUSSION IN LORDS ABYSSINIAN POSITION (British Official Wireless.) Rec. noon. RUGBY, July 17. The subject of slavery was discussed in the House of Lords in connection with tho recent |i-eporl of the slavery committee of the League of Nations. Lord Cecil and the Archbishop of Canterbury paid a tribute to the work of British Governments for the last 100 years, and since the war nil Geneva, in support of the movement for the suppression of slavery. The archbishop complained of the need for more information from certain areas, and advocated a special agreement regarding the traffic in slaves in territories round the Red Ben ami other places.

Willi regard to Abyssinia he said it was only fair to' recognise that the Emperor was trying to suppress slavery there, in spite of the difficulties. and Lord .Noel Buxton and Lord Polwatth spoke ro the same effect in referring to their personal experiences in Abvssinia.

Replying to the debate, Lord Stanhope said that the Government was anxious to increase the influence and power of the League’s slavery committee. alid would give to its work the fullest possible support.

With regard to the Red Sea traffic, lie claimed that the preventive measures in which British forces took part had reduced the big stream to n ripple.