4 JUNE 1910, Page 3

The newspapers on Monday published copies of a corre- spondence

between the secretary of the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines' Protection Society and Sir Edward Grey. The object of the Society was to draw the attention of the Govern- snent to the treatment of natives at the rubber plantations in Putumayo Valley, in Peru. The conditions are alleged (apparently upon very strong evidence) to be "almost identical " with those which existed in the Congo. There is a difference, however; for the estates are owned by the Peruvian Amazon Company, a British syndicate, three of whose directors are Englishmen. Sir Edward Grey in his reply stated that the matter "is engaging the most serious attention of his Majesty's Government."