MR JELLICOE.

Feilding Star, Volume II, Issue 493, 11 February 1908, Page 3

MR JELLICOE.

ADVICE TO ASIATICS. OPINIONS OF DINIZULU'S TRIAL. V [BT E_ECTRIO TELECBAPH — COPTBIOHT.] [PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.], London, Feb. 10. Router's Johannesburg correspond- | ent states that Mr Jellicoe there advised the Asiatics to support the constitution, but to be prompt in putting forward their grievances. Mr Jellicoe stated in an interview that Dtinizulu's trial would be delayed for months. Martial law in Zululand is unlikely to bo withdrawn until Royal assent to the Indemnity Act •has been secured, otherwise J&.-'Go-vernment must fear prosecutions tor killing and flogging natives. He added that Natal had/broken faith with tho Imperial Government . Mr Jellicoe, in/a letter^to Sir Marthew Nathan (Giovernor) charges the prosecution witjfl persistently preventing DinizuluyJrom obtaining evidence for tha>_oTence. Ho describes the proceedjrags as a judicial outrage. "Dinizujj&'s trial, be says, -'is a political _--TOie. You are aware that with Lord Elgin's concurrence I came to defend Dinizulu. It is common ground be- - tween us. Owing to the mendacity of the local press, engendered by the influence of political and other adventurers seeking t& exploit four million acres reserved to the natives, and who find Dinizulu an obstacle to their -_C_--__L{-_r A strong opinoin has grown" in Nital that Dinizulu is disloyal. The letter proceeds to allege that witnesses wore forced under martial law to incriniinato Dinizulu, and were notAllowed the opportunity to withdraw such statements. Mr Jellicoe claims that ho possesses evidence that unresisting natives were shot under martial law. Hundreds of Dinizulu's witnesses were arrested when hidden. The Daily Telegraph's Maritzburg correspondent states that the Minister of Defence declares that the statement that the natives were flogged to obtain evidence ia ridiculous. Th-2y ' were flogged for insolence, but the punishment was mild. The correspondent adds that there is great indignation at Mr Jellicoe not remaining to substantiate this accusation. Mr Jellicoe quarrelled with all the law officers at Maritzburg.