SOUTH AFRICA.
NATIVE CRIMINAL CASES*
SPEECH BY LORD GLADSTONE,
By Telegraph— Association.—Copyright, (Received September 4, 11.40 p.m.) - Capetown, September 4. Lord Gladstone (Governor-General of South Africa), who was ; entertained at lunch on the occasion of his visit to Salisbury, referring- in' the course of a speech to his decision in the Umtali case . (in, which a. native sentenced to death for-as-saulting a white woman had been' reprieved), said that nobody regretted the difference which had arisen with the people of Southern Rhodesia more keenly than he did, but it was a difference over the merits of a single case rather than of principle.
There could be only one principle, namely,. the inviolable sanctity of our women coupled with justice and fairplay to subject races.
Lord Gladstone emphasised that the number of criminal cases in which white and black had been involved during the past year suggested that the machinery of trials might require overhauling. He eulogised the revised system adopted in Natal.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 147687, 5 September 1911, Page 7
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