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Show British to Appoint Com- Bl mittee to Investigate fi!f Outrages In Peru lMf! London, Aug. 6. Premier Asquith, lBTl in the house of commons, today stated ' AY I that the British government had de- ' cided to appoint a select parliaments- JK ry committee of inquiry into tho JMj j atrocities reported by Sir Roger Case- r Iff ment to have occurred in tho Putu- rjB" 1 mayo district of Perul The ques- M tioncr requested tho government to l,j inquire if any responsibility for tho Al outrages rested ou the British direc- y jUH tors of the rubber company. Work of Marauders. jH Lima, Peru, Aug. 6. Complete or- : M dor is reported to prevail today in BH the Peruvian zone of the Putumavo ' M rubber district, where terrible atrocl- H tios on native workers wore recently ' H reported. 1 HH A dispatch from Iqultos, on the Up- , per Amazon, says tho authorities of 1 M that district express their conviction ' that the authors of the recont crimes H in tho Putumayo region were Colum- " lH "bian marauders unconnected with tho WIhI firm of Arana, former owners of tho rfBfl rubber rogion. ' j HH It Is assorted reports of outrages ' VWm wero spread in order to discredit tho , ' H Arana family. Wmmm oo r EHw |