THE TRIAL OF DINIZULU. WELL TAKE PLACE BEFORE SUPREME COURT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 36, 12 February 1908, Page 7

THE TRIAL OF DINIZULU. WELL TAKE PLACE BEFORE SUPREME COURT.

By Telegraph.— Prees Association.— Copyright. LONDON, llth February. Mr. Winston Churchill, Parliamentary Undor-Secretary to tho Colonial Office, has informed >Mi\ C. F. Mackirness, M.i?., that Dmizulu's trial will take placo bsfo'-e the Supreme Court. .Mr. Churchill has also informed Mr vV. Redmond, M.P., tnat in view of the conditions attaching to Diniaulu's return to South Africa, Lord Elgin was bound to give earnest nnd persistent attention to the whole course of the trial. It was reported that Dinizulu would not b& tried before the Supreme Court, and Mr. Jellicoe wrote to the Secretary of State for the Colonies protesting against the chief being treated differently from any of tho "King's white subjects. The Prime Minister ot* Natal, in aniswer to an enquiry addressed to him by the London Standard, sent a message, giving a full account of lh& events which have forced his Government to take action. _ _Ho pointed out that in view of distinct pledge-s of protection given to the loyal chiefs and natives of Natal nnd Zululaaci, and of occuiences in Znltiland since the close of the late rebellion, the Government of Natal had been.' obliged to send a force of police into Zulnland. and later, in support of tbflt force, a military contingent to assist in preventing the extermination by mnnier of tho loyal chiefs. Tho crimes v sta ted to have been' committed by natives include tho murder on sth April, 1907, of Gence, a native doctor, formerly employed at the Usutu kraal; the m'u-.'d'er, on 25th August, of the loyal cnyaf Si'tsitshili; the discovery of a, plot and attempt to kill the loyal chief Mbuzo's . principal son on 7th October; the murder of tho loyal chief Mpumela- on 20th November; as well as other recent <attemptsd murders following on kindred undetected crimes m 1906, amongst which wits - tne murder of 'Mr. Stainbank, a magistrate. It is for his alooped connection with some of these crimes, as well as on chuTges of sedi-. tion, that Dinizulu will stand his trial. MR. JELLICOE S PRECIPITATE ACTION. SEVERE CONDEMNATION. (Received February 12, 9.4 a.m.) CAPETOWN, llth February. The Cape Argim seveicly condemns Mr. / Jelliroo'.s precipitate action as a menace to Natal's peace, and an encouragement to the enemies of the Engliih colonists. Mr. Jellicci?, who relinquished K W'i> brief for the de-feifco of Dinizulu suggested among other thing 3, that the i Natal Government had broken faith, j and that it must fear prosecutions for killing and flogging nativps. In a letter to the Governor, Mr. Jellicoo asserted that ho possessed evidence that unresisting nati,v>s wero shot under martial law, and that hundreds of Dinizulu's witnesses were arrested and mddon.