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THE

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1918.

PUTUMAYO.

Former Hongkong Consul's Enquiry,

found was virtually slavery. A FAR EASTERN NAVAL SQUADRONS.

olaims are transferrable, the per

;

Gunboat

Water tank and tug

1,700 12 2,000 Comdr, O, L. Lambe

Master W. West

4,350 107,000 Capt. C. F. Corbett M.V.O. Shanghai

son of the debtor being transfer red to the now creditor, the In dians and their families really A twentieth-century story of are bought and sold. Families Anglo-Saxon exploitation of Southpaes on indebtedness from genera- American Indians, rivalling as a tion.

While Mr. Fuller found evid-Alacrity. narrative of heartless cruelty tales which have come down from the once that the company had mend-Atlas Tel. 634 old Spanish captains, was laid ed its ways to some extent, ho Bramble

Bare in a special State Department aaw much unquestionable evid-Britomart report which President Taft trans-ence that cruelties are still Cadmus Cherub mitted to Congres. The present-practiced.

All the while that Conral Faller Clio day victims of a medineval system

Torpedo-boat destroyer 2nd class oruiser Torpedo boat destroyer 205 of barbarous oppression are the was attempting to get at the facts Famo Indian tribes of the Patumayo in the rubber-field-situation, it is Flora district in Peru, says the New declared, his a'opa were doggod Handy

Torpedo-bost destroyer 280 It is by the company's agents, making Janus York "Evening Post".

1st class cruiser River gunboat shown in the report that there it difficult for him to obtain any Kent

been information but such as it was Kinsha helpless people have

Surveying ship 1st class cruiser driven to their death before the desired he should procure. The Merlin lash wielded by the Peruvian Indians, who were friendly enough Minotaur

let class cruiser Amazon Company, an English and willing to talk through an in Monmouth

River gunboat concern which works the rubber terpreter, are said to have cower-Moorhen fields in the Upper Amazoned and lapsed into silence when- Newcastle

the vigilant overscer Nightingale country.

Otter Iittle hope for the relief of the approached. Indiars is held out in the report, for the Futumayo region is r mote from the seat of Peruvian Government, and Mr. Stuart J, Fuller, American Iquitos, Peru, and formerly Con- sul in Hongkong, who made the investigation, finds that travesty of justice which exists in the rubber section is entirely in the hands of the rubber com

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27,000 Capt. G. O. Cayley.

800 Lt.-Com. Alan Dizon

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240 Lt. Comdr. M. Murray Yengtsze 6,300 Lt.-Com.E.T.R. Chambers Canton 7,500 Lt-Com. E.J.G.Mackinnon Hongkong

Weat River 240 Lt-Comdr. Nash/

Name

Tons Guns IH.P.

HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S ON THE CHINA STATION.

Class Despatch-boat

Commander

Reported at

Hongkong,

Admiralty tug

Hongkong

710 2

900 Lt-Com. B.E. Prichard:

Yangisze

Gunboat British sloop

710 72

900 Lt.-Com. W. H. Darwell

Yangtaze

1,070 B.

1,400 Comdr. H. Williams

Shanghai

390

*British sloop

10708

300 Master H. Smith 1,400 Comdr. Mackenzie, D.S.O.

Hongkong

Hongkong

360 в

6,700 I-Com, Wilkinson

Hongkong

6

4,000 Lt-Com. F. G. Briokenden West River

6

3,000 Lt. Com. Boddam Whetham Hongkong

9,000 14

22,000 Capt. Allon T. Hunt 0.51. Hongkong

616 4

200 Lt.-Com. H. Marryaft

Yung taze

1,040

Capt. F. O. C. Pasco

Hongkong

14,600

Hongkong

9,800

22,000 Capt. B. H.F. Barttelot.

Hongkong

180" 2

Hongkong

2nd class oruiser

River gunboat

85 2

Torpedo-boat

385

6

Ribble

Torpedo-tost destroyer

690-

River guaboat

85 2

Depotship for Submarines 980

1,400 Lt-Comdr.N.E. Archdale Hongkong

River gunboat

85 2

240 Lt. Com. I. S. Hutton

Hongkong

River ganboat

85

2

240. Lt.-Com. Maurice Leslie Yangtsze

Torpedo bost destroyer

350

6,000 Gunner W. H. Ryder

Hongkong

Receiving ship

4,050

6

Com. R. H. Anstruther U.M.G Hongkong

River gunboat

180

800 Lt.-C. Hon. Guy Stopford

Yanglaze

Gunboat

710 2

900 Lt.-O.HR.N. Cotrell Dormer Yangtze

Torpedo-boat destroyer

690

7,500 Lt-Comdr. Maxwell

Canton

Torpedo-bost destroyer

355

6

6,300 Lt.-Com. H. D. Adair-Hall

Hongkong

Torpedo-hoat destroyer 590

7,500 Com, Seymour

Hongkong

5,000 Com. R. Neville

Hongkong

195

2

160

2.

150

500 Lt-Comdr. Lloyd

Shanghai

Lt-Com. Godfrey Herbert Hongkong. L.-Com. A. A. L. Fenner Hongkong.

Lt.-Com. Handley

West Rivor..

Lt.-Com. Stileman

Lt.-Com, Nicol,

Robin Rosario Sandpiper

Snipe 7 Taku Tamar Teal

Hopes Through Peruvian Government. Although the company against which the charges of cruelty are Consul atlaid still is in control of the Indians, Consul Taller hopes alti. mately for mitigation of their Biffering through the efforts of Thistle President Billinghurst, who, since Uak to assumed the leadership of Virago the Peruvian Government," has

the

Pu-

Welland

Gunboat

pany's section chiefs. It is the shown by sets and utterances Whiting

Torpedo-boat destroyer 360 6 Palumayo country's remotenes that his policy would be

Gunboat Widgeon from the Peruvian capital, from vigorous regarding the Woodcook all governmental authority, that

Woodlark tumayo question. The Consul bo- has left the natives entirely at lieves that before long drastic the mercy of the company, accord-

measures will be taken to end for ever all forms of abuses com- ing to the report.

Almost Impassable Barriers... The Anies form an almost immitted against the defenceless passable barrier to the westward, natives of the Putumayo, whom while to reach the outside world he found to be not wild and through the Atlantic Ocean, river craft manst traverse almost the entire 3,300 miles of the

antamable, but mild, docile, in: oribed by Sir Roger Casement, offensive, and childlike, as des British Consul-Conoral at Rio de Janeiro, who investigated the situation in 1910.

un- Railroads are Amazon. known, and no highways exist worthy of the name. In this far- away corner, with no means of appoal or redress, the Indians

were

at

mercy

Gunboat

0.36,

0.37,

0.38,

T.B. 035,

T.B. 038,

T.B. 037,

T.B. 038.

800 Lt-Comdr. J.C. Borrett Upper Yangtaza 500 Lt.-Com. M. B. Blackwood Yongteze.

Lt.-Oom. J. R. A.Codrington Hongkong.

י

Hongkong. Hongkong. Lt.-Com. H. W. Soymour, Hongkong.

Flagship of Admiral Sir A. L. Winsloo, K.C.B., O.V.O., O.M.G. Commander-in-Chief.

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FOREIGN MEN-OF-WAR ON THE CHINA AND JAPAN STATION. Kaiser Franz

JosephI Armoured cruiser

It was the disclosures made in Sir Itoger's report that inflasaced the State Department to order the keld

the

investigation which Consul Fuller

Duploix of the company's overseers. When

Kleber Decidea they failed to bring in a toil suffi.now reporta. Sir Roger found that cient to satisfy the demands of among other thing the Peruvian Amazon Company imported 200

Argus mon from Barbados, who, upon Vigilante the overseers, flogging, mutila- cometimes death tion, and

their arrival in the rubber district, Peiho ROAD followed, .it is gworted.

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Several overseers are declared to were armed with Winchester Dondard de Lagree, Gunboat

4,000 45

8,000 Capt. Hauta

French.

10,014 30 20,000 Capt. Vergos 9,700 12 19,800 Capt. Gourts

645 10 1,000 Lieut. Vandier 180 8 570 Lieut. Dordet.

500 Lieut. de Jervillier

123 7

130

Shanghai

Shanghai

Hongkong

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Canton

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Lieut. Dupuy Dutempe

Tehong kin

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1,798 10

1,700 Lieut. Guillaume-Louis Saigon

Destroyer

350 7

303 Lieut. Aurillac

Saigon

Destroyer

Capt. de Frigate Rouisen, Hongkong"

Destroyer

Destroyer Surveying-ship

1307 307 1,625 10

300 Comdr. de Marquessac

Saigon

f

300

Saigon

0,000 Com. Voisin

Saigon

**Flagship of Rear Admiral Callooh'de Kerillis, Commander-in-Chief, the French China Station.

riefle, and wwata into the jungle. have admitted that boy had Pat to ospture and enslave Indisne Indians and even whitelabourers dwelling along the upper Lynx in stocks for minor offences. Many Amazon tributaries. The British Protec of the Indians whom Mr Falleroneul found that in the exercise Styx saw, bore scars of flogging and of this illegal compulsion the In- Fronde

diane were murdered, flogge, 'Iberville Mr Fuller found that the labour

and otherwise tortured, the com- Pistolet of the Indians is secured by o

Manche the Barbados men actively to system of peoango based on ad-pany, through its agents, forcing Mousquet

other maltreatment.

vance of merchandise. Although participate in the atrocities in • Flagship of Commodore Boucicaut, Commanding the local defence Lorlo.China.

can

payment is made for this labour order to compel the helpless na it is declared to be nothing more tives to scour the forests and nor less than forced labour, Thel

bring in Indis rubber upon Emden temptation to abuse is imminent their backs from the remote dis-Gneisonaut and strong especially since the tricts. The Barbados men in turn tis white staff is offered a bonus for complained of harsh taealment Jaguar vigilance. He roaches the con- from agents higher up, who de- Leipzig clusion that, considering the metal remoteness of the country and prived them of food as a means Luchs

to compel them to drive the Nurnburg 8 the poor quality of the rabIndians to further extremes. The Otter

ber, it is unlikely that the entire plan of operations seemed Scharaborrt

he made. enterprise

to be based on a system of S. 90 to pay without hard treatment of oppression, from the highest to Taku the Indians. Although large the humblest in the employ of Tiger. numbers of the Indians have been the company, which is declared Taingtan killed, and some have escaped to have wielded always an iron Vaterland into the South America jungle, and from the far-away London

Calabria the output of rubber has increau office. ed, despite the decrease in native population. With governmental machinery absent, Mr. Faller is of the opinion that, should the On December 23 last a awallow Macao rabber corporation cease its was caught in the farmhouse of Patris activities, the Indians would fall the farm Boodeyand, near Utre- to no better lot at the hands of cht, Natal, bearing a label on its freebooting expeditions and slave leg, "Witherby, High Holborn, raiders.

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UNITED STATES VESSELS ATTACHED TO ASIATIC STATION:

Submarine

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Tsingtau

Shanghot

Taingtou

Tsingtau

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Capt. Lieut. Firle

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11,600-38 20,000

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280.4

6,000

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1,300

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223

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8,430

7,500 Commander M. L. Bristol

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420 243

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Cavite

Carton Cavite

Cruising

Cavite

Shanghai

Monitor

3,990 4,084

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243 8 854 2 3,085 350 4,300 14

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243 8

250 Liout. G. O Dichanonl

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8,115 14

17,401 Commander H.A. Wisy

Swatow

870

208 Lient, E. Darr

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1,302

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