MR. SASTRI INSULTED
AT SOUTH AFRICAN GATHERING MINISTER OF INTERIOR APOLOGISES (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) Cape Town, September 17. The Minister of the Interior, Dr. Malau, on behalf of the Union Government, has apologised to the Hon. V. S. S. Sastri, Agent-General for India, tor an unpleasant incident at Klerksdorp on Saturday. M. Sastri attended a municipal banquet given in his honour. The DeputyMayor interrupted Sastri frequently, eventually shouting, “We did not come to listen to an Indian.” In the hubbub the lights were switched off and a stink bomb thrown into the midst of the assembly, the chemical bursting into flame. The Mayor summoned the gathering into the open air, and characterised tlie perpetrators of the outrage as cowards. His deputy, while disclaiming responsibility for the bomb, states that drastic action was necessary to counter the Government’s pro-Asiatic policy.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 300, 19 September 1928, Page 11
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140MR. SASTRI INSULTED Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 300, 19 September 1928, Page 11
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