The British and French Governments are giving serious considera-ition to the revival of slavery and Itrafiic in human beings in Africa, regarding which the League of Nations has promised to take action next September.
Thousands of slaves are apparentily being marketed in Abyssinia.; The French Government has discovered that_monthly shipments of {slaves are passing through the port jof Tadjourah, in Somaliland from which traffic the local Sultan derives a fee of a dollar per head on each Islave shipped to Arabia.
Further south, on the East Coast of Africa, the French focal authorities have been trying to stop conveys of slaves between Madagascar and the mainland of Africa, and it is stated that more than 300 slaves have been carried across during the last four months, while British naval units are endeavouring to deal with the situation in the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, with good results.
British naval units have recently been shelling villages on the coast of Oman in connection with slave-running operations. A convoy of slaves recently discovered by them proceeding from French Somaliland was believed to have come from Abyssinia.
In the case of the slave traffic on the Oman Coast, it is understood that the slaves had been obtained from Persia and Baluchistan.
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