and unimpeachable sources that carry conviction and, above all, marshalled with a sobriety and sureness that cannot be gainsaid." "Lady Simon . Public Opinion. offers an exceedingly competent survey of the present position in regard to slavery all over the world, and her book should be of real value to all those whose sympathies are deeply involved in the cause of Abolitionism."-New Statesman. "Lady Simon, who narrates this story, has written her book to do for the slaves in other parts of the world what the judgment of the Supreme Court in Sierra Leone did for the slaves of the Protectorate." The Times Literary Supplement. Have YOU read this book? If not : Order your copy through The Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society, London, S.W.1. Ask for it at your Library. RT. HON. LEIF JONES, M.P. SIR T. FOWELL BUXTON, BART. Committee: F. C. LINFIELD, Esq. A. MACKENZIE LIVINGSTONE, Esq. MISS M. CAREY MORGAN. MRS. MORSE. H. W. NEVINSON, Esq. SIR ROBERT NEWMAN, BART., M.P. LADY PIM. LADY SIMON. SIR ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR, BART, W. H. STOKER, Esq., K.C. WEBB, C.I.E., C.B.E. COL. THE RT. HON. J. C. WEDGWOOD, CECIL H. WILSON, Esq., M.P. Hon. Secretary: TRAVERS BUXTON, M.A. Solicitors: MESSRS. MORGAN, PRICE, MARLEY & RUGG, Bankers: BARCLAYS BANK, LTD., 95, Victoria Street, S.W.1. Auditors: MESSRS. FAIRBAIRN, WINGFIELD & WYKES, 67, Watling Street, E.C4 HEADLEY BROTHERS. INVICTA PRESS, ASHFORD. AND 18 DEVONSHIRE ST. E.0.2. H7857 For the ANNUAL REPORT, 1929, see page 48D UNIVERŘITY AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES: LETTER TO FEDERAL PRIME MINISTER QUEENSLAND: REPORT OF ABORIGINAL Department ABOLITION IN UPPER BURMA CHILD" ADOPTION" IN CEYLON VISIT OF THE BECHUANA CHIEF, TSHEKEDI KHAMA THE NATIVE IN PARLIAMENT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS PAGE 2 3 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. ༥ ABORIGINES' FRIEND. APRIL, 1930. [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.] Quarterly Notes. Freed Slaves The Times correspondent in Rangoon stated at the end in Burma. of January that the expeditions recently sent to the Triangle District of Upper Burma to find out whether slavery, head-hunting and human sacrifices might still be carried on in secret, reported that the released slaves are said to be contented and happy. Some are still living with their former owners, but the majority have built houses in their old villages or elsewhere. "The people so far encountered have been friendly, the crops good, and the roads well kept." On a later page will be found reference to a lecture by the late Deputy Commissioner on the work done by him in this connection. Lynching in the Ir appears from statistics now published that there were twelve lynchings last year in the United States, as against eleven in the previous year; the victims included four whites. It is to be noted, as before, that in only a few (three) of these cases was rape the alleged cause. It is deplorable to read that not one lyncher was punished last year, but there were twenty-seven other cases, in 1929, according to President Moton, of Tuskegee, of attempted lynchings which were successfully resisted by officers of the law. In Kentucky we hear of six men having been recently held to bail to answer for the murder of a prisoner taken out of gaol and killed. The largest number of lynchings, which were all in the South, were in Florida and Texas. It must not be forgotten that lynchings have largely declined in the last few years, and progress has been made-for as many as sixty or seventy lynchings per annum used to be recorded not long ago. Dr. Moton, of Tuskegee, speaking on the subject recently, said: Such outbreaks are becoming sporadic, and when they do occur they gain much more notice and white public reprobation than formerly.” Peonage in the United States. A SERIOUS case of the enslavement of negroes for debt is reported from Louisiana, in which a cotton planter pleaded guilty to charges of peonage, and was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment. The defendant, on being charged with chaining up his labourers who tried to escape, declared that every other planter in the country did it. "There isn't any other way to handle them," the accused is reported to have said. The practice is for planters to advance food and lodgings to labourers and in crop-time to deduct the debt from their wages; if they cannot pay, the planters make it a practice to "detain them. This is peonage pure and simple. Justice for South African Natives. THE South African Outlook records a glaring instance of contrast between sentences passed on Europeans and natives respectively for theft of stock. In one case cited a European farmer who pleaded guilty to stealing two oxen (valued at £5 and £2 10s.) from two natives, was sentenced by the magistrate who tried the case to a fine of £10 or two months' hard labour on the first count and £5 or one month on the second. In the other case six natives were found guilty of stealing two sheep from a European. The two ringleaders were sentenced to twelve months each on the first count and nine months on the second, the other four being sentenced to eight months on the first and ten months on the second count. The value of the sheep (26s.) had to be paid paid jointly by the defendants, or in default, a further three weeks. These men had already served four months in gaol before the trial! The sentence was confirmed by a judge, on review. The Native in OUR readers probably know that this journal is alone in publishing all questions put in the House of Commons relating directly to the interests of native races. Some idea of the number of these may be obtained from the number of such questions printed in the volume xix. for last year, 1929-30, which reached approximately 142. flui sai in Trong Kong. NEWS comes from Hong Kong that the registration of mui tsai is making very slow progress. "It is no secret," says the South China Morning Post," that registration since it became operative has been exceedingly slow and disappointing." The Editorial goes on to say that what further steps will have to be taken is a matter which must be exercising the mind of the local officials in order to give effect to the intentions of the Home Government. The Hong Kong Daily Press writes "Slavery the |