19 DECEMBER 1908, Page 14

[To TDB EDITOR. en , THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—H would interest

your readers to know what other firms there are besides the one you name in your last issue by whom slave-grown cocoa is not used.—I am, Sir, Sic., G. J. N.

[As far as we know, Messrs. Van Houten are the only firm who use no cocoa from San Thome and Principe. We do not doubt, however, that before long there will be few, if any, English firms who will use it,—unless, of course, the Portuguese Government and the planters substitute free labour for slave labour, and put an end to the horrors of the slave trade by which the plantations are supplied with workers.—En. Spectator.]