THE CONGO OUTDONE.
RUBBER ATROCITIES. SPECIFIC CHARGES MADE. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHTI LONDON, July 14. A Blue Book issued containing Sir Roger Easement’s report specifically charges many Peruvian Amazon companies’ agents with wholesale unpunished atrocities and flogging of British West Indians and native Indians collecting rubber, including atrocities on women and children, and the cutting off of ears, arms, and legs, leaving the victims to die; pouring kerosene and incinerating men and women and other unthinkable cruelties. Sir Edward Grey’s (Foreign Minister) demand on Peru for drastic measures has been without result, hence the publicity.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3576, 16 July 1912, Page 5
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95THE CONGO OUTDONE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3576, 16 July 1912, Page 5
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