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SAYINGS OF THE SLAVERY IN ABYSSINIA
WEEK
The fact that the date of Christ- mas falls in the starveling world of December is, to my mind, sym- bolic of the imaginative magni- ficence of men.-Mr. Robert Lynd.
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I do not see why the public should not have pornography if it wants it:ad I do not object to it myself except when it is dis- gustingly vulgar and ugly Mr.
Bernard Shaw.
To-day a war is for Japan a polley of assurance against revolu- tionDt. Arthur Rosenberg.
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The German does not believe in absolute Justice, and he employs the term only as mathematicians fnd use for such imaginary quan- tities as the square root of minus one.-Mr. Cufford Sharp.
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First Steps Towards Final
Abolition
A year having passed since the Emperor of Ethiopia, undertook to press on with anti-slavery reform measures in Abyssinia and to bring elavery to an end within a period of 20 years. it is an appropriate time to consider what progress has been made.
attitude of the local governors Some of these are endeavouring to put down the traie in slaves, and definite improvement in this res- pect has been made in some areas, But others are apathetic or hostile, and certain governors are directly involved in the slave trade them- selves.
THE FORCE OF PUBLICITY
Viewing the question of catching and trading in slaves, as a whole,
Some advance can be recorded write Lord Noel-Buxton. A Sia- very Department was catablished last August, and has made a good beginning. Its chief, the former
we can record that a measure of Ethiopian Minister in Rome, has already shown that he means bu siness. The personal support of public opinion how supports re- the Emperor enables the depart form. While it is a long time since the Emperor Monelik condemned ment to carry on. As promised by the trade, it is to Haile Selassie him in 1932 the Department re-
If there is one thing the sceptics doubt more than religion. it is the
His authority, reinforced. sea serpent. Major the Hon. Ed-ceives the reports on slavery for that we must give credit" for the
warded by the British Minister: change. ward Cadogan, M.P.
from the various British Consuls by the suppression of rebellion, has The French, Belgian, Polish, and in Abyssinia. An Englishman, Mr at least spread a knowledge of the Itallan frontiers, not to mention de Halpert, formerly adviser to law. He has lately held a confer- parts of the country, and a reform. the boundaries of Manchukuo, are the Ministry of the Interior, has ence of slavery judges from all really the frontiers of Britain been appointed as adviser to in
foot in at least one province, which In several provinces newly install.ed administration is being set an Sir Abe Balley.
ed Governors are showing energy is intended to serve as a model. notably in the great territory of Gojjum, where unsuccessful rebel- lion brought the hereditary king-ground of the large-scale trade in dom to an end.
They are no ordinary criminals who stood in the dock at Leipzig. Never has the Court been faced by such callous, cunning, and unscrupulous prisoners.-General
Goering.
Murder is not the sin of sins- The Manchester Coroner.
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It is the very plainest common sense that we must alter the world laboriously if we are to alter it fundamentally and that it is precisely those who only alter it alter it сал who superficially swifty-Mr. G. E. Chesterton.
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Slave children "car
It is clear that the driving, under-
slaves, or its reduction to the at mensions of smuggling and kidnap- ving of small groups, which has RAIDS IN THE SUDAN
been achieved in some parts of the The efforts of the new Slavery country, is a very much easier task Department are concentrated at than an attack on the fundamental present mainly on preventing slave problem of slavery itself. If the raids and the trade in slaves. The law wern enforced which prescribes existence of raiding has, even in the cmnaoipation of slaves on their the last year," been proved by the owners' death and of children born transfrontier raide into, British to slave parents in recent years, territory which have attracted so slavery would, of course, die out in much public attention. One of the a comparatively short time. But most significant features of the si- the apposition to such measures tuation is the fact that some of the would be tremendous, and at pre- highest officials are concerned in sent the Emperor's decrees on the status of the slave are mainly hon- these affairs. ried off from British territory hay cured in the breach. An exception- The Conservative party has been
recent months in regard to condi. described as a stupid party. Other been found in the households otal situation, however, has arisen in parties come and go, but we re- Ethiopian governors and other off main, and all because we are socials. After a raid in which wo long in Gojjam, where the Emperor The abolition of slavery in Ethio- damned silly. Mr. A. Dutt, Cooper: men and children were carried off ordered liberation on a large scale,
The House of Lords, as at pre-into slavery some of these children sent constituted, has no defenders. were traced to the households of pia is bound to be a work which it Abyssinian delegates who, at the will take some years to complete. Lord Ponsonby.
conference called to discuss the The recognition of this fact, how raid, had denied nil knowledge of ever, is no reason for slackening One of the the pressure brought to bear hy It takes a lot to prevent the their whereabouts. Scotch people from calling any-chiefs concerned in a recent raid public opinion on these responsible into the Sudan was Shekh Khojali, for the administration of the coun- thing "wee." Sir John Squire,
To judge by our last two years husband of the notorious Sitt try. Without that pressure, and of peace training, we are training Aimms, who actually established a the moral support which it conveys for a war like the South African slave depot in the Sudan through it would be much more difficult for War: that is, for the war before which 800 slave children were tra the last one.Major-General J. F.sed as having passed. She was subsequently imprisoned, and is C. Fuller.
now in a Sudan gaol.
The revention of raids both in-very commission, now at length ternal and external, should become more possible as the Emperor in creases his authority over the sub- ordinate chiefs. But at present the chslaving of new negroes is often the work of local garrisons which in certain districts are neither London, Dec. 18 paid nor disciplined, but 'live on The passing-out inspection of the country." In the Maji country 170 cadets was performed at Sand there are continuous attacks on the hurst to-day by General Sir Archi-native tribes by the soldiery. In bald Massingberd. It was notable one such expedition last year large for the fact that an Indian was numbers of old men, women, and children were killed, five women present for the last time. cadets will enter the Indian Mand children being burnt alive when
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A number of slaves are smuggled across the Red Sea every year int: Arabia. In come casas slaves are exported with passports issued by the Ethiopian Government, and pass as pilgrims until they are The Italian priest was sorry that sold at Mecca Others are moved in caravans through, the desert such a trifling matter should in- duce the youth to give up the exported
However, those who Danakil country, and
pilgrimage. from the Gulf of Tajura in French wish to go with hith have to be Somalilada by dbow. Others reach imbued with the courage to give
FROM NEW YORK VA MANILA " the same point of embarcation by up smoking and to be able to
are hereby notified that their cargo having arrived from Copenhagen, route. British a more northern
updergo the hardships of the road. will be discharged into Holt's harf Gothenburg, Oslo Antwerp, Hamburg, hereby Some monks have requested the Kowloon, where it will lie at Consig. Algiers, Genes, Madras and Singapore Italian monk to stay longer in nees risk and subject to terms and consignees of cargo are Bangkok; but he refused because conditions of storage at Holt's Wharf. informed that all goods are being as an allen he has to leave after The Cargo will be ready for delivery landed and placed at their risk into the dardand/or extra hazardous month's residence, otherwise the from Godown on and after 18th Jan. Impligration Department would Optional cargo will not be landed Godowns of the Hong Kong said Kowloos impose the regular fee.
here, unless notice has been given Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., where prior to picama arrival but inrried Delivery can be obtained, as soon as the The Italian monk says that the on from port to port to the final prot Goods and landown be admitted Buddhists in Rangoon have shown of all to which the option extends.
their great plety in
All broken, chafed, and damaged the Goods have left the Godown, and accom- goods are to be left in the Godowns, all Goods remaining undelivered after When he left Rangoon panied by over two hundred Bur-where they will be examined onány 31st January, 1984,- at. & p.m2, will
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods within mese monks on the way to Benares Tuesdays and Fridays between thembject to Bent.
sloops make the passage of large slave dhows across the Red Sea very difficult, but there is no such embargo on a trade from ports lying south of that sea. Most of the trade, bowever, is internal, and the existence of diourishing slave markets, often under the nose of the governor concerned, is unques- tionable. This is especially true of the Maji and Sayo districts, S.
Even when the slave-trader is arrested the lot of his victims. i often no better than before. The slaves and their captors are some times placed in the same prison.
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in India the people spread mats hours of 10.45 LM. and NOON V to be left in the Godowa, wher
No claims will be
the 20th January
! While there disease often attacke progress while the presentation of both. When they are brought into food was more than their bowls,
could hold. There were some wo conrt the slaves are ut every pos sible disadvantage compared with men who spread out their hair the slaver. They are mere animals on the road for the monks to in his eyes, and do not understand tread on. Owners of dispensaries the language. The traders, on the made them liberal gifts of quinine or before the 8th Feb., or they will other hand, have plenty of money aspirin and other useful medicines, be recognised.
BUTTERFIELD & BWIRE, for purposes of bribery and know and some people shipped robes Info Firo namos will be effected the law. In these circumstances advance by boat to Benares so that progress in the suppression of the when they arrived they might slave traffic must depend on the have everything they needed.
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18th January, 1934.
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