INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st MARCH, 1928.

EXPENDITURE.

INCOME.

£ s. d. £

BALANCE sheetT, AS AT 31st MARCH, 1928.

5,703 8 6

£5,765 13 2

W. A. ALBRIGHT, Esq.
MRS. C. E. ALEXANDER.
C. G. AMMON, Esq., M.P.
W. J. BAKER, Esq., M.P.
EDWARD BATESON, Esq.
MISS BARBARA BLISS.
MRS. BLUMLEIN.

C. DELISLE BURNS, Esq.
LT.-COM. R. T. H. FLETCHER.
A. F. FOX, Esq.

Treasurers:

SIR T. FOWELL BUXTON, BART.

Committee:

G. M. GILLETT, Esq., M.P.
MAJOR-GENERAL W. H. GREY, C.B.,
C.M.G.

LADY HALL.

DR. ROBERT HOWARD.

REV. C. E. C. LEFROY, M.A.
F. C. LINFIELD, Esq.

A. H. LORING, Esq.
MRS. MORSE.

H. W. NEVINSON, Esq.
H. J. OGDEN, Esq.
REV. W. PATON.

LADY SIMON.

SIR ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR, BART.,
C.M.G., M.P.

HON. SIR MONTAGU DE POMEROY
WEBB, C.I.E., C.B.E.

COL. THE RT. HON. J. C. WEDGWOOD,
D.S.O., M.P.

CECIL H. WILSON, Esq., M.P.

Hon. Secretary: TRAVERS BUXTON, M.A.
Parliamentary Secretary: JOHN H. HARRIS.
Hon. Lecturer: MRS. JOHN H. HARRIS.

Solicitors: MESSRS. MORGAN, PRICE, MARLEY & RUGG,
33, Old Broad Street, E.C.2.

Bankers

BARCLAYS BANK, LTD., 95, Victoria Street, S.W.1.

Auditors: MESSRS. FAIRBAIRN, WINGFIELD & WYKES, 67, Watling Street, E.C.4

Headley Brothers, Invicta Press. Ashford. and 18 Devonshire St. E.C.a

Published under the sanction and at the Offices of

The Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society,

51, Denison House, Vauxhall Bridge Road,

London, S.W.1.

ABORIGINES' FRIEND.

JULY, 1928.

[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.]

Freed Slaves in Burma.

Quarterly Notes.

THE Times' correspondent in Rangoon reports that Mr. J. T. Barnard and his party have successfully completed their work of freeing the slaves in the Triangle District of Northern Burma. No opposition was encountered by the expedition, and 1,028 slaves were released during the present year, leaving no slaves remaining in the Triangle. A large number of Kachin Chiefs, who accompanied Mr. Barnard back, were warned by the Commissioner that there must be no return to slavery, and that the freed slaves must be allowed to live absolutely unmolested in their villages.

Lynching in the U.S.A.

THE figures given by the Tuskegee Department of Records and Research differ somewhat from those given in our last issue (page 3), but they agree in showing a considerable reduction on those of 1926. Among the reasons for this improvement the Southern Workman mentions the undoubted development of public sentiment against this barbarism, and also efforts on the part of local authorities in several states where serious lynching outrages had occurred, " towards some gesture of law enforcement."

It has been recently proposed by the Governor of Virginia that the crime of lynching be declared by law to be a specific State offence, to be prosecuted by the State co-operating with local authority; that a county or city where lynching occurs be made to pay $2,500 to the representatives of the victim, and that the Government be authorised to expend what is necessary to apprehend the lynchers. Thus the crime and its punishment. would be made a State concern.

The first four months of the present year are said to have passed without any lynching being reported in the United States. A writer in the Observer ascribes the diminution in the number of lynchings largely to