SOUTH AFRICA.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14921, 20 March 1914, Page 7

SOUTH AFRICA.

INDEMNITY BILL PASSED.

MOVEMENT TO EXTRADITE KENDALL.

(By Cable.—P-esi Association.— Copjri«i*) CAPE TOWN, March 13. The Indemnity Bill has been read a third tirce in the Senate. General Smuts stated that though the deported men did not have a trial in the ordinary sense, they had had eeveral weeks' trial before Parliament, and had therefore received substantial justice. General Smuts informed the Assembly that there was no special agreement indemnifying the owners of tho steamer Uuigeni against any action thnt the mon might take. The owners had received ordinary passenger fares for the men, with £1001) as compensation for loss of freight. A movement is contemplated to secure tho extradition of Kendall, one of the strike leaders who' was to have been deported but escaped to Australia. The proposed application for extradition arises from admissions alleged to have been made by Kendall in Australia. The Minister for Justice drew the attention of tho Transvaal AttorneyGeneral to these admissions, with A view to his taking action.

HELP FOR RAILWAYMEX. j (Received March 19th. P. 10 p.m.) LONDON, March 19. The National Union of Raihvaymeiv alter an interview with Poutsma, cabled the South African railwaymen £■500. TAKING IT OUT. (Received March 19th, 3.30 p.m.) CAPE TOWN. March 18. Harrison, a Socialist, arrested in connexion with the strike at Cape Town, was fined £50, in default six months' imprisonment. He v.ent to prison. A LABOUR VICTORY. (Received March 19th, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON. March 19. The Labourites, who asked for a niandato against the deportation of tho leaders, carried tho Transvaal Provincial Council elections. (Received March lPth, 11.30 p.m.) JOHANNESBURG, March 19. Nineteen out of twenty-three Labour candidates were elected to tho Transvaal Provincial Council, the victories ia most cases being by overwhelming majorities. In the Rhodesian elections, pro--Chfirtered Company candidates wero elected at Salisbury and Bulawayo.