TO-DAY'S CABLES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 88, 18 August 1923, Page 5

TO-DAY'S CABLES

OYER MILLION IN SLAVERY.

MEMO VO LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

Press Association—Copyright. Australian, and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 10.45 a.m.) London, August 17.

Following the decision of the League of Nations to deal with the question of slavery at next- meeting, the Anti-slavery and Aborigines Protection Society prepared a memorandum, stating that slavery involving over a million persons prevailed in Abyssinia and the mandated territories of south-west Africa and Tanganyika. BRADFORD WOOL SALES.. London, August 17. At the Bradford wool sales, business 'was restricted, prices being firm. MOUNTAINEERING IN ALPS. 1 Geneva, Atigust 17. Dr. Brodig, the veteran climber, while instructing a class of Alpiinists; on the Gauli Glacier, fell into a ere- 1 vasse, breaking his leg and several ribs. He was extricated by the students and taken to Meiririgen. Captaiu Farrar~ editor of the Alpine Journal, climbed the difficult Ibnefluh Peak (13,000 feet), which has not- been climbed for forty-five) years, when two Englishmen made the firstfc ascent. AFGHAN RAIDERS IN PERSIA. (Received 11.5 a.m.) Delhi, August 17. A Mesched cable states Afghan raiders cut the Persian telegraph line fifty miles north of Seistan, killing the linesman who was effecting repairs. Persian cavalry are pursuing them. ENGLISH STRIKE MATTERS. (Received 11.5 a.m.) London, August 17. " A meeting of business-men ccaiven-; cd by the London Chamber of Commerce passed a resolution in favour of common action to end the dock strike, and palling on the Home Office? to* assure adequate protection for the men who had resumed work and others who desired to resume, But were prevented from fear of personal violence. Tho meeting also carried a resolution welcoming the action of the ratepayers who proposed to challenge I tho legality of Poplar and Bermonsey guardians in granting poor relief to the strikers, somei of whom received larger sums in (relief than when afc work, and urging the Government to declare illegal the payment of doles to men refusing to work.