CHIEF DEPOSED
FLOGGING OF EUROPEAN THE BECHUANALAND INCIDENT. CAPETOWN, September 14. Chief Tshekedi has been deposed and ordered to live outside the reservation at his Majesty’s pleasure. Admiral Evans, addressing Tshekedi, said he was a decent-living man who admitted flogging Macintosh, which he had no legal right to do. The natives were ordered to return to their homes and elect an acting chief and council. BRITISH PRESS COMMENT. “A THOROUGHLY BAD BUSINESS.” LONDON, September 15. (Received Sept. 16, at 0.15 a.m.) The newspapers emphasise that Tshekedi has not,been deposed, but suspended during his Majesty’s pleasure. Mr Stanley, the South African High Commissioner, who is now in London, will have a consultation with Mr Thomas regarding the matter. The Daily Herald describes the affair as a thoroughly bad business, and says: “Doubtless Nazi minded Britons rejoice that * Evans of the Broke taught a nigger a lesson,’ but the decision will long be remembered by the people of Bechuanaland, who once had a childlike faith in British justice.” The News-Chronicle says: “The Bechuanaland affair is a bad business. No Englishman will dispute the necessity for the white man’s prestige being maintained, but the remedy seems drastic.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22060, 16 September 1933, Page 11
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194CHIEF DEPOSED Otago Daily Times, Issue 22060, 16 September 1933, Page 11
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