QUESTION OF SLAVERY
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. "DOMESTIC EMPLOYMENT." • Press Association—Copyright, Alts Itralian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 11.45 a.m.) Geneva, September 15. The committee of the League of Nations Assembly discussed the question of slavery. Mr Ro<?,9ii Buxton declared tho British Government would not suggest any limit to the scope- of tho proposed inquiry concerning slavery, but could not be bound in advance to accept the conclusions reached, although it would examine them sympathetically. M. Hofmover described the position in South Africa. He said tho situation among the natives amounted to nothing more than domesticemployment. Some of the chiefs were discharged and a number of their people engaged in that capacity. M. Hofmeyer beliovedl good results would l)e obtained if a commission of inquiry were established with sympathetic contact ana cooperation between the countries concerned. The committee finally approved of the terms of reference of the proposed inquiry.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 69, 16 September 1924, Page 2
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