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Show I SEE EVIDENCES OF REVIVAL OF SLAVERY Immediate Legislation Urged Upon Fromior Asquitli by Influential British Committee. I.OXDOX. Nov. '20. Immediate leg-r-lation to bar British subjects from Invading the slave trade acts is urged ; a memorial presented to Premier V.-quitii today. The signers, an influential commit-to.1 commit-to.1 . were stirred to action by tho reve-,aiions reve-,aiions of atrocities on tho nibbed "ields of Putumayo, Peru, and by evidence evi-dence that 'conditions of nutivo' labor plpcwliere in South America and in other tropical and semi-tropical regions 'here Brilish subjects and capiial arc operating, are elbselv akin to slavery."' A demand for the revision of tho a mi -slavery treaties with forcigu powers pow-ers is also made by the committee, which urges that these- trcalics should be made definitely 'applicable to "modern "mod-ern forms of slavery." |