Répertoire des administrateurs & commissaires de société, des banques, banquiers et agents de change de France et de Belgique

Bibliographic data

Monograph

Identifikator:: 1724926314

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-103958

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Denkschrift über die Maschinenindustrie der Welt, bestimmt für das Komitee B des Vorbereitenden Ausschusses der Internationalen Wirtschaftskonferenz des Völkerbundes

Place of publication:: Bln-Charlottenburg

Publisher:: Verein Deutscher Maschinenbau-Anstalten

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: V, 194 S.

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

Usage license:: Get license information via the feedback formular.

Chapter

Document type:: Monograph

Structure type:: Chapter

Title:: Anhang. Statistischer Material

Collection:: Economics Books

xvu ON SLAVE TRADE (EAST COAST OF AFRICA). slaves exported irom Zanzibar and Kilwa during those years, dhows carrying 37,000 slaves must have evaded capture, making the captures about 6 6 per cent. only. ° “ 26. These figures are sufficient to show the insufficiency of the present squadron to check, much less to stop, the trade ; and the reasons assigned are that the existing treaties and the instructions as to domestic slaves render it impossible to take a dhow south of -Lainoo, and during the south-west monsoon it is very difficult to keep the cruisers suffi ciently near the coast to intercept the dhows as they run northward before the wind, while there appears a general concurrence of testimony that the present number of the squadron is insufficient for the work to be performed, and that the efficiency of the squadron would be materially increased by an additional supply of steam launches for the arduous boat service on that coast. r 27. In connection with the failure of the measures hitherto adopted it was given in evidence that much was owing to the want of recorded information, and the necessarily frequent change of commanders, who, moreover, are not supplied with the official reports of those who have preceded them, as well as to the inefficiency and untrustworthiness of the interpreters employed, who not unfrequently are in league with the traders, and mis lead the commanders of the squadron. ‘‘28. Tour Committee having heard the evidence, are strongly of opinion that all legitimate means should be used to put an end altogether to the East African slave trade. “ 29. They believe that any attempt to supply slaves for domestic use in Zanzibar will always be a pretext and cloak for a foreign trade, while the loss of life and the injury caused to maintain even the liniited supply of slaves required for this purpose must of necessity, be so great as to forbid this country continuing to recognise any such traffic in witnesses, that should the Sultan consent to . slave trade a revolution would follow, and that a sudden stoppage of the importation of slaves into Zanzibar would seriously affect the industrial position of the island ; but, on the other hand, a witness of great experience has given it in evidence that the Zanzibar Arabs are fully aware that the trade will be stopped, and are beginning to understand that more profit can be made by retaining the labourers to cultivate their own country, than by selling them away as slaves, while the abolition of the trade would encourage free labourers from all parts to reside at Zanzibar, so ensuring a laro-er and better supply of labourers than exists at present. “31. It appears from the evidence, that the parties from whom turbulent opposition may be expected are the northern Arabs, the presence of an English force at Zanzibar would afford sufficient protection. 1 Your Committee therefore recommend that it be notified to the Sultan of Zanzibar, that the existmg treaty provisions have been systematically evaded, and have been found not only msuftcient to protect the negro tribes in the interior of Africa from destruction but rather to foster and encourage the foreign trade in slaves. Her Majesty’s Govern- longer recognise those provisions as binding upon this country, but will take ucn legitimate measures to abolish the slave trade as may be deemed necessary represented to the Committee by some of the witnesses, that as the ^ erives a considerable part of his revenues from the slave trade, it would be of the* trad^^ make him some compensation for the loss he would sustain by the abolition treaty with tífé“? U «he negotiations for a new J tne oultan, already alluded to in this Report. the Sultan shoiil^i^n equivalent for the supposed loss to his revenue, to the Sultan of =>? “““I «"bsidy of 40,000 crowns su^entitpjiT r:qfor:itT:ft:iic I'JZiw::: therefore. c

Access restriction

Copyright

Full text: Répertoire des administrateurs & commissaires de société, des banques, banquiers et agents de change de France et de Belgique

Monograph

Chapter

Table of contents

Download

Monograph

This page

Image fragment

Citation links

Citation recommendation