RED RUBBER.
PUTUMAYO SCANDALS.
GIRL SHAMEFULLY BEATEN.
London, April 16.
The select committee of the House of Commons which is enquiring into the alleged Putuniayo rubber scandals sat again to-day. Mr. Hardenbury, who wrote articles in Truth exposing the crimes committed on the plantations, deposed that he saw Indians with scars on their backs. These marks were known as "Arana's marks." He had also seen a cage in which seven captives were kept during a sea voyage. A man could stand upright in it, but ct)uld not lie down. He indignantly repudiated the suggestion that he had attempted to blackmail Senor J. C. Arana, one of the directors of the company. Captain Wiffen, who is attached to the Foreign Office, and who went out to examine into the atrocities, stated that on one occasion he saw a girl very badly treated. Her hands were tied behind her, and she was slung from a rafter by a rope attached to her wrists, and | then was beaten with a cord.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 288, 28 April 1913, Page 8
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168RED RUBBER. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 288, 28 April 1913, Page 8
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