25 JULY 1931, Page 16

THE NEGRO IN THE UNITED STATES.

I take the following from The Times of July 20th " . . . 150 negroes held a meeting at Camp Hill to protest against the death sentences passed by the Court on eight negro youths con- victed at Scottsboro of having criminally attacked two white girls in a goods train." It would be interesting to know what penalty a white man would incur for a similar offence against a negro woman. It would appear that the American negro is under an equal legal disability to that imposed on the South African negro--JOHN E. R. HARDMAN, Aldenham Lodge Hotel, Radlett, Herts.