SOUTH AFRICAN INDIANS

Evening Star, Issue 15343, 18 November 1913, Page 6

SOUTH AFRICAN INDIANS

ON STRIKE AND IN OPEN REVOLT. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, CAPE TOWN, November 17. (Received November 18, at 9.15 a.m.) The situation in the plantations near Durban is daily becoming more alarming. Strikers besieged the Edgecombe estates to induce the workers to strike. The European women and children took refuge in factories, and the police were summoned. The Indians assailed them with sticks and stones, and 30 Indians and one trooper were injured. The Indians on the other plantations set lire to the cane, causing serious damage. The situation in Durban has become more acute. The harbor, corporation, and railway employees have now struck, as well as the drivers cooks, waiters, and messengers. The work of scavongering bas had to be suspended. A hundred Rand policemen have been sent from Johannesburg to Natal in connection with the rioting. -AGITATION IN INDIA. DELHI, November 17. (Received November ]B. at 11.55 a.m.) fiospel Krishna Ookhalc, the representative of tho i;on-official members of the Bombay Legislating on the- Viceroy's Legislative CcM/cil, i.> organisincr a. mocister campaign to euvport the South African jveisters. Both Hindus and Mohammedans are participating in tho meetings that arc being held in all important towns.