SLAVE OWNING AND TRADING

Taranaki Daily News, 24 July 1931, Page 7

SLAVE OWNING AND TRADING

NECESSITY FOR FURTHER STEPS. HOUSE OF LORDS PASSES MOTION. British Official Wireless. Rec. 5.5 p.m. Rugby, July 22. The House of Lords unanimously passed a resolution which, while recognising the action already taken by the League of Nations regarding slavery, recorded the opinion that further steps of a definite nature for the abolition of slave owning and trading wa's an apparent international duty. The motion was proposed by Earl Buxton, who expressed the view that if slave trading were declared to be piracy it would soon disappear. He advocated the creation of an information office under the League. The Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Lugard supported the motion and in accepting it for the Government Lord Parmoor referred to the co-operation iu the Red Sea between the British, Italian and French navies in preventing the transferring of slaves to Arabia. Lord Cecil urged the appointment of a permanent commission to assist the League’s efforts in the matter. The difficulty was, he said, that certain countries resented interference with their own affairs. It was important to make it clear that interference was not intended.