members of the Society of Friends, to the still existing evils of slavery in all its forms.

Rev. WILLIAM PATON is the successor to Mr. J. H. Oldham in the Secretaryship of the International Missionary Council.

MR. HENRY GURNEY and MR. J. H. OLDHAM have been appointed VicePresidents of the Society. Both gentlemen served on the Committee, Mr. Gurney, who was elected a member in 1886, being the senior member of that body. He also served for many years on the Committee of the Aborigines Protection Society.

Obituary.

WITH deep regret we have to record the death of two of the Society's VicePresidents. SIR HARRY JOHNSTON died on 30th July. At the meeting of the Committee on 4th August, a resolution, proposed by the President, was passed in the following terms:

The Committee of the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society has heard with deep regret. of the death of Sir Harry Johnston, a VicePresident of the Society, who has for many years taken a strong and practical interest in its work, of the importance of which he was firmly convinced. Among many other valuable services rendered by him, the members especially recall his spirited advocacy of the Society, in an appeal addressed to business men in 1919, to regard the Society as one of the Insurance Societies of the Empire." The Committee begs respectfully to express its sympathy with the Hon. Lady Johnston in her loss.

MR. J. ST. LOE STRACHEY, who died after a long illness, in August, had long been a firm friend and helper of the Society. A keen anti-slavery man, the vigorous way in which he threw himself into the fight against Portuguese slavery in the early years of the century will be remembered, and he acted as Chairman of a special Sub-Committee on this issue in 1912, of which Mr. H. W. Nevinson, the late Mr. Harold Spender and others were members.

When a change in the name of the Society was mooted, Mr. Strachey was one of those who protested most strongly against the dropping of the name" Anti-Slavery" with all its old associations.

Almost the last of the many services which he rendered to the Society was the eloquent and stirring speech which he gave at its annual meeting in June, 1926, on the Slavery Convention of the League of Nations. This has been published in pamphlet form.

Review.

"AN AFRICA FOR AFRICANS."*

By ARTHUR S. CRIPPS.

MR. CRIPPS' selfless devotion to the interests of the Africans among whom he has lived, and whom he loves, is well known, and this book is an impassioned plea for just and generous treatment to be meted out to them, especially in the matter of their land. His plea is well summed up in his

own account of the ideals animating the Native Areas policy :

'We want a racially self-conscious African not to feel himself homeless in a colonized Africa; we want a miniature Africa of the Africans, free, as far as may be, from exploitation, and free, as far as may be for self-development, to exist within the borders of every one of our Native Areas."

To attain this end Mr. Cripps declares himself an advocate of the segregation policy, provided that equitable areas be given to the natives with full opportunity for their expansion and development. But he does not regard the recently proposed land legislation in the Union as satisfying this condition. An enlightened segregation policy implies faith in freedom, not a faith which "insists on super-imposing one's own race's Kultur on a subject race."

In Mr. Cripps' words, the right policy must unite Land Severance and Land Abundance, to form a Dual Alliance for the benefit of the Natives. Mr. Cripps' first interest is, of course, for Southern Rhodesia which he knows so well, but his argument applies to South Africa generally. He is a firm believer in the industry and capacity of the African native in agriculture, quoting a sympathetic critic, Mr. Homer L. Shantz, of the United States Department of Agriculture, in support of this view, and he protests against the sacrifice of the Native small-holder to the fetish of more land for settlers."

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There is a good deal of repetition in Mr. Cripps' book and his arguments are supported by a large number of quotations, South African and other.

Towards the end he deals with the Carter Commission on Land in Southern Rhodesia, and lays stress on the points which the Society has urged in its communications with the Dominions Office, insisting on the necessity of giving the natives a fair quid pro quo for Surrender of Clause 43 of the Constitution of the country. We are now, the author contends at the cross-roads in this matter; the interests of 813,000 of our fellow British subjects are at stake and a solemn responsibility rests upon the friends of the African Natives not to let the opportunity slip.

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[The Editor, whilst grateful to all correspondents who may be kind enough to furnish him with information, desires to state that he is not responsible for the views stated by them, nor for quotations which may be inserted from other journals. The object of the Journal is to spread information, and articles are necessarily quoted which may contain views and statements for which their authors can alone be held responsible.”

Abyssinia: Freed Slaves' School.

Quarterly Notes.

INQUIRIES have been made about the progress of the proposal for a school for freed slaves and orphan children in Adis Ababa, the capital of Abyssinia, as to which the Foreign Office approached the Society last year. Although a building has not yet been erected it appears that the school is already started on a small scale, twenty children having been brought together under the care of Dr. Martin, who are being taught to read and write Amharic, and weaving, carpentry and tailoring. We are informed that a number of persons interested in the school have set a good example by giving freedom to about one thousand of their slaves; the effort against slavery is described as being " a very difficult and up-hill work."

We are glad to note that Lord Buxton, during the Debate in the House of Lords, entered a warning with reference to the suggestion that slave labour should be employed in the erection of the Dam at the outflow of Lake Tsana. Informal representations have been made to the Abyssinian Envoy, Dr. Martin, that public opinion here would view with serious concern any proposal to erect this Dan. by slave labour.

Slavery in North Burma.

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TELEGRAM from the Rangoon correspondent of The Times, published on the 12th December, refers to a report made to the Government of India on the operations carried out by Mr. Barnard, Deputy Commissioner of the Burma Frontier Service, last cold weather in the Naga country, for the emancipation of slaves, in which the Burma Government states that four thousand slaves were released and only six hundred remain to be