CONTROL OF LIBERIA.
LEAGUE INQTTTKY INTO SLAVE TRAFFIC. British Official Wireless RUGBY, March 9. Questioned regarding the resolutions of the League Liberia Committee, the Foreign Under-Secretary (Dr Dalton) said the Liberian Government was represented on the Committee, whose decisions were unanimous. There was every reason to hope that the expert on general administration who was proceeding to Monrovia, would be able to propose suitable action and end the unsatisfactory state of affairs. Dr Dalton stated that no specific instances of slave trading across the Red Sea were brought to the notice of the Government last year, though he feared it was quite possible that shipments of slaves from the African to the Arabian coast took place. The activities of the British sloops and the measures taken by the French and Italian Governments had undoubtedly reduced the traffic to comparatively small proportions
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18823, 11 March 1931, Page 10
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141CONTROL OF LIBERIA. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18823, 11 March 1931, Page 10
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