Geneva, Sept. 13.
A discussion on the recent judgement of the Supreme Court Sierra Leone upholding the right of a slavecowner to recapture an escaped slave was raised to-day at the meeting of the Sixth Committee of the Assembly of the League of Nations.
'The Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Hilton Young (Great Britain) said that. the decision had disagreeably surprised the British Government and had revealed an hiatus in the legislation of Sierra Leone, which was being remedied by' urgent] measures.
The Committee approved the Slavery Convention and congratulated the British representatives on the completeness of their reports as compared with the meagreness of others.
The British report showed that 200,000 slaves have been liberated in the past fifteen years in territories under British influence—Reuter, Geneva; Sept. 12.
committee to-day discussed the question of the limitation of opium
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