RACE WAR.
The Colour Line In South Africa!
POSITION as to Indian labour -in South Africa is exceedingly grave* and at some points exceedingly sinister. It is , proved beyond all questhat -Indian labourers in South Af-. rica. have been brutally treated—far more brutally, in all likelihood, than the authorities are disposed or prepared, to admit. Feeling in . India runs." very strongly, and there is talk of a race war..; To _ thoughtful the position- in 1 India cannot-be otherwise than depress-' ing. - The country .seethes with crude democratic sentiment and unrest> The exclusion from Australia of Indian subjects _ has caused _ great dissatisfaction, and is a continuing cause of offence. • Things in India are ripening for aVseo-' orid mutiny" though: it mav be still afar off. The .whole question of the duty to the Empire of the self-governing Domi-' > nions is one that must be faced. Some settled conclusion must.be arrived at as to the extent to which British subjects born in India can be shut out of British Dominionis oversea. Loud talk and insolent colonial spread-eagleism settle no~ thing permanently:
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Free Lance, Volume XIV, Issue 702, 13 December 1913, Page 5
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179RACE WAR. Free Lance, Volume XIV, Issue 702, 13 December 1913, Page 5
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