CHINESE ON THE RAND.
TSB-TSU-SHAN’S CHARGES. "UNWORTHY OF INVESTIGATION.” (Received August 16. 10.35 p.m.) LONDON, August 16. In consequence of the statement, sent to the “Daily Chronicle” recently by a Chinaman named Tse-tsu-shan, giving circumstantial stories of ill-treatment of Chinese coolies at the Rand mines, Mr Richard Bell, AI.P. (a prominent labour unionist) wrote to Air Lyttelton, Secretary of State for the Colonies, making inquiries. Air Lyttelton, in reply, quotes documentary evidence exposing Tse-tsu-shan’s antecedents, and adds: “Allegations from such a source are unworthy of investigation.” A FARM ATTACKED. CAPETOWN, August 15. Fourteen Chinese coolies on the East Rand deserted and attacked a farm. The occupier used his rciolver, killing throe. Tho remaining Chinamen there-, upon decamped.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5669, 17 August 1905, Page 5
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