APPEAL FOR A PETE - MAYO FUND.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR,—This Society has for nearly four years laboured in order to 'expose the terrible conditions of oppression and slavery in the Putuma.yo district of the Upper Amazon, and to obtain reforms. The task has been an arduous one, involving the Society in heavy expenditure, but our efforts have not been unfruitful. The publication of Sir Roger Casement's report, which caused wide- spread indignation, the appointment of the Select Committee of the House of Commons, and the successful petition in the Court of Chancery for a compulsory winding-up of the Peruvian Amazon Company were the results of the efforts of the Society , following upon the revelations in Truth.
Hitherto the members of the Society and their friends, including the petitioners in the recent Chancery action, have borne the expense incidental to this work, and we have made no outside appeal, but the time has now come when we consider an appeal should be issued to a larger constituency to share with our Com- mittee the heavy liabilities which the work continues to entail. The Society is actively prosecuting the agitation, but we recognize 'that if the work is to be pushed to a successful conclusion a eon- siderable sum of money must be raised. Towards this we have seeekted.already two promises of 450 each. As the Putumayo question is one for which this country has peculiar responsibility, we beg to ask that you will allow us to make an appeal through your columns for the necessary financial assistance which this important humanitarian work involves.—We are, Sir, &c., J. J. BUXTON,
COLIN SCOTT MONCRIEFF,
E. W. BROOKS.
Denison House, Vauxhall Bridge Road, London, S. W.
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