16 NOVEMBER 1912, Page 18

It is for this reason that we have come to

the conclusion that it is necessary for all persons who detest slavery, and, really mean to do their best to abolish it, to use every effort in their power to put an end to our defensive alliance with Portugal. As long as that alliance is maintained Britain is particeps criminis. We, a Power which boasts that it put an end to slavery in the past, are at this moment actually main- taining and supporting a hideous remnant of slavery in West Africa. When the British public realize this fact, as, if we can accomplish it, they shall, the alliance with Portugal will come to an end. The only alternative is for Portugal to put her house in order, but that, as we have said, she unfortunately shows no sign of doing.