SOUTH AFRICA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 17, 5 September 1911, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICA.

THE COLOUR QUESTION. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. United Press Association. Capetown,'September -1 Lord Gladstone, Governor-General, was entertained at lunch at Salisbury. In the course of a speech ho referred to the decision in the Umtali case. Nobody, ho said, regretted the difference which had arisen with tno people of Southern Rhodesia noro keenly than himself, but it was the difference over the merits of a single ( use i other than of a principle. To ore tout! he only one principle, namely, the inviolable sanctity of our women, coupled with distinct justice and fair play to the subject races. (Applause.; He emphasised tiie number of criminal cases wherein write ami black had bi-ni n voiced during the past yoai, and suggested that the machinery of the trials might require overhauling. He eulogised the revise 1 system adopted by Natal.