HC Deb 20 July 1910 vol 19 c1233
Mr. FELL

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he proposes to invite the signatory Powers to the Brussels Act of 1892 to revise the stipulations contained in Article 22 that the right of search and capture at sea of vessels carrying slaves is limited to vessels of less than 500 tons, seeing that the experience of the conveyance of natives between Angola and San Thomé shows the necessity for such revision?

The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. McKinnon Wood)

Chapter III. of the Brussels Act, which contains the Article referred to (Article 23), applies to the East Coast only, and its provisions have no reference to the conveyance of natives between Angola and San Thomé.

Mr. FELL

Is Angola comprised in this Convention of 1892?

Mr. McKINNON WOOD

No. I think the Brussels Convention dealt with a different kind of traffic in slaves from that.