London, Jan. 24.
Lady Simon, the wife of the well-known Liberal leader, Sir John Simon, speaking at, Wellingborough to-day, made a reference to her speech in London on January 16, when she stated that she was going a crusade in Britain to stop people buying Ceylon tea if slavery Ceylon was allowed to continue.
Lady Simon emphasized that she had always distinguished bettor open and avowed slavery, such existed in Arabia and Abyssinia, and abuses arising from the system of child adoption for domestic pur-pores. The latter might—not! amount to slavery, but it, might involve serfdom, and sometimes it led to cruelty as revolting as anything in the history of slavery.
While many Ceylonese and Chiese households doubtless treated adopted children kinilly, Lady Simoa continued, it was impossible to deny. n the face of published reports, that there were terrible cases maltreatment and that stronger measures must be taken to stop these "dreadful erimes."—Reuter.
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