THE HINDU TROUBLE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9855, 24 July 1914, Page 5

THE HINDU TROUBLE.

(Bl EtIOTBIO TILIOBAPH—COFTMOHf.) tPin Pitss Association.) < VANCOUVER, July 23. Gurdit Singh (the leader of the deported Hindus) refuses to allow the Komagata Maru to sail unless the various demands are complied with. He wants a thousand dollars' worth of food. The officials decline to place more aboard.' The militia has been called out and it is likely a forced departure will be made at once. The officials misunderstood the Hindus' letter demanding extra provisions. It was not intended as an ultimatum, The Hindus took the refusal quietly, and will sail early in the morning. VESSEL SAILS AT LAST. Received July 24.. 9.30 a.m. VANCOUVER, July 23. The Komagata Maru has left. Received July 24, 11.25 a.m. VANCOUVER, July 23. Convoyed by H.M.S. Rainbow, the Komagata Maru departed peacefully. The militia remained all night on the wharves. The Hindu committee ashore claim that Gurdit Singh deceived the Komagata's passengers as to the real reasons for their deportation. Few of them really knew why they were barred entrance to Canada.

It is understood that as a result of the Komagata incident the British Government is likely to take up with the United States the question of investigation into the political activities of Hindus throughout the United States and Canada. Well-known Hindus in several centres have started an agitation in California, particularly in SanFranoisco and also in Seattle, Washington State.