§ SIR C. HILLI beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he can state the result of the representations which are understood to have been made by the Foreign Office to the Portuguese Government on the subject of slave labour on the cocoa plantations of San Thomé and Principe.
§ MR. CHURCHILL (for Sir EDWARD GREY)We learn from the Portuguese Government that fresh regulations are being drawn up, placing the recruitment of labourers for the plantations entirely and permanently under the control of Portuguese officials. Due provision is also to be made for repatriation. An official in whom complete confidence is placed by the Portuguese Government is to proceed to Angola shortly in order to superintend the inauguration of the new system.