Show INDIANS s IN BONDAGE IN INTHE THE PERUVIAN JUNGLES Natives in Slavery are Flogged Mutilated Mutilated Muti Muti- or Otherwise Tortured at atWill atWill atWill Will of Inhuman Masters Washington With With the transmission to congress on Friday by President Taft of a sp special state dep department report report re reo re- re port compiled by American Consul Stewart J. J Fuller at Iquitos Peru on the Saxon Anglo-Saxon exploitation of South American Indians in the Putumayo district of Peru and conclusions ODthe on OD the same name subject by Frederico Alfonso Peruvian minister to the Uni Uni- i- i ted States were made public by the state department It Is shown in Consul Fullers Fuller's report report report re re- re- re port that the helpless people of the Putumayo district were victims of a medieval system of barbarous oppression oppression sion sJon wielded by the Peruvian-Amazon Peruvian company an English concern which works the rubber fields in the Upper Amazon country It is asserted that when the Indians failed to bring in a toll of oC rubber sufficient sufficient sufficient suf suf- to satisfy the Overseers of the I company flogging Jogging mutilation and and sometimes death followed Debt is declared to have been the chain with which the Indians were f fettered By being forced to buy more imported goods than they ever could hope to pay for they have been reduced reduced reduced re re- re- re to what Consul Fuller found was virtually slavery |