NATAL COOLIE STRIKE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 279, 22 November 1913, Page 5

NATAL COOLIE STRIKE.

j RIOTS ON A PLANTATION. J I I THE END IN SIGHT. EXCITEMENT IN INDIA. I i I {Us Cable. --I'm* Association.—Copyright) I . (Raf.ivt>d 10.10 a.m.) !T;1;BAN: No\eml>er 21. The ..iolic- on Harrison's Kslate, ten n\Lles nurtli of the city, began to destroy the property. The Native police arrested the ringleaders, hut •■- large hody of Indians overpowered the police and rescued the prisoners. Kuropean police wrro then dispatched. They (luellod the riot and rearrcsted tlio. ringleaders. lJurban is qni.'ier. and the prospects of an earl\ restiTn.ption arc more hopeful.• Members of the Natal legislative Council arc pressing the I'nion (iovcrnniciit to rpfraia from colled ing the 00/ tax on Indian". Mr. Smuts refuses' (o consider the proposal. ■.Many Indians ar.e returning to work, and the railways have a full complement. he chief trouble is now on t.br sugaT r.-t;ltcs. Natal papers strongly recent the comments of the British Press, and declare thai the allegation.? of flogeing are a libel upon the employers.

THE REPRESSIVE MEASURES. EFFECT ON INDIAU SENTIMENT. DISASTROUS TO FAITH IN BRITAIN. j (Times-Sydney Piiu Special Cable.) (Received R.2fl a.m.) I'ALrrTTA, November -1. The South African Committee in Bombay, in a mcs>ag.- to the \'icj-rov, after rcierring to what i> ilrcpu-rihed as "ineasurc.s of cruelty and opprcswion to which no foreign Government dare enforce a,ga.in=t British subjects. , ' apprehends that if bloodshed occurs ii; Natal the effect on Indian scntipinnl will prove disastrous, the turn of events being calculated to seriously imperil faith in l?ritain"s goodwill towards the .Indian people It hescej-hes the Imperial government !to exercise the veto on In- South African ! law. I ScnsalionaJ tcicgrnms com-eniing alleged outrages are fostering he agitation, and the indignation now existing has not j been ei|ualled for many years. Lady Petit, presiding .a a meeting of Knglish Indian ladies, convened by the Aga Khan, said the world was horrified. No iivili>cd liovernment had previously I converted the mines into gaols, and tlm! mine owners into gaoler-, with the power ' to Hog for continuing to strike j The Bombay Presidency Association j telegraphed to the Viceroy that, such i treatment, would be .1 ea.sus belli if it i happened in a foreign country. Subscriptions to support Indians in | South Africa re couiiiij; in largely. I Mr. (iladstone. Mr. Smuts. Oneral i Botha, and the late Mr Fischer were \ burned in effigy diir'na -i nia.-s meeting | in Allahabad. The Cilculla newspaper "Slati-sman"' say.- that the dignified course would be ■ for Indians to withdraw from n country,' where they ;'rc not wanted. The newspaper "Hengali" suggests that the (loTcrmncnt of India should .-top the purchase of South African coal, which is stained with the blood of their countrymen.