16 AUGUST 1913, Page 3

We desire to draw our readers' particular attention to the

leading article on Portuguese Slavery by Lord Cromer which we publish in this issue. It is to be followed by two others. We sincerely hope that so lucid and so moderate a statement of the case as Lord Cromer offers may convince Englishmen who hitherto have not concerned themselves with the question —perhaps because they were suspicious of what they imagined was sentimental exaggeration—that an actual condition of slavery does exist in the West African colonies of Portugal, and that it is the duty not of a single body of men in Great Britain, but of all classes, official and unofficial, to work in union and without pedantry for bringing that condition of things to an end.