INDIA.

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INDIA.

Press Assn— By telegraph— Copyright. PRETORIA, yesterday. Three members of the deputations appointed to lay. the grievances of the Transvaal Indians before th© Imperial Government and the people of India-were sentenced to three months' imprisonment for infrfriging the Transvaal registration law. The deputations intended to sail on the 23rd. In the House of Commons, replying to Messrs Lynsh, Wedgewood, MacHarness, and others, Mr Asquith firmly upheld the Government of India's action in connection with the deportation of sedition-mongers. He! declared the Imperial Government would Hot countenance attempts to amend the regulations of 1818, and any effort to mitigate its -strictness would deprive it of its value as a deterrent, and render it a less effective instrument against the anarchical and terrorist conspiracy. He warned his questioners that by constantly raising discussions they were encouraging- the revival of the elements of mischief in India, which the deporta-: tions had done so much to abate." i