“CARE TO BUY A SLAVE?”
BUSY MARKETS ON RED SEA MORE EXPENSIVE TN ARABIA AUTHORITY’S DISCLOSURES RICH MOHAMMEDANS BUY By Tel«tr»ph-—Press Assn.— Cdpyricht. ll p.m. 'London, Dec. 12. “Would'you cite to buy a slave’” — asks Herr Max Gruehl in the Daily Express. “Come with me to Arabia, Somaliland or Abyssinia There human beings are offered for sale. ... “It will cost' you a pretty penny on the regular market at Jeddah which is under the byes of the European consuls; here 11 beautiful, slender coffee- . coloured GaKa girl will cost about £lOO, but on the African side of the Red Sea, in Somaliland or southern Abyssinia, Ghllaland slaves are cheaper.”
The Daily Express says Herr Gruehl '..is one of the foremost German authorities on Abyssinia, to which he has ' devoted 24 years of' study. He has con- . J- dticted three’'expeditions in recent years to Ethiopia and Abyssinia. He affirms the chief slave-markets are in Hedjaz,
Xcjfl, Yemen and Ttane-Jordania. A conservative estimate of the slaves sold there every year is 2000 males and females. Nearly every rich Mohammedan in Arabia slaves, many becoming .the mothers of his children.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 December 1930, Page 7
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