INDIANS IN NATAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 70, 22 November 1913, Page 4

INDIANS IN NATAL.

COLLECTION OF THE TAX.

MANY RETURNING TO^ORK.

(By Electric Telegraph— Copyright] [United Press Association.] (Recoiled 9.50 a.m.) • Durban, November 21. Members of the Natal Legislative Council are pressing the Enion Gov eminent to refrain from collecting tin 60s tax.

General Smuts* (Minister of Fin ance and Defence) refuses to consid or the proposal. , • Many Indians are returning t work. The railways have a full com pleineut. The chief trouble now i in connection with the, sugar estates The Natal papers strongly resen the comments of the British press and declare that the allegations < flogging are a libel upon the employ ers. THE WORLD HORRIFIED. A CASUS BELLI. BURNT IN EFFIGY. Bombay, November 21. Sensational telegrams of allege outrages fostering the agitation ar indignation have not been lie for many years. Lady Petit, presiding at a meet in of English Indian ladies convened [ the Agakhan, said that the world wj horrified. No civilised Governmei had previously converted the mini into gaols, and the mine owners ini gaolers with power to flog for coi tinning the strike. . The Bombay Presidency Associatic telegraphed the Viceroy that gtu treatmentw ould be a casus belli if

happened in a foreign country

A subscription in support of the I dians in South Africa are coming largely. J Lord Gladstone, General .Smut General Botha, and the late Mr Fisclu were burned in effigy during a nun meeting at Allahabad. PROPOSALS FOR RETALIATION Calcutta, November 21. The newspaper The Statesman sa; the dignified course will he for Ti dians to withdraw from the count) where they are not want 'd Tiie newspaper Bengalee that the Government of iiiD -L-AtL stop tin* purchase of Son re* Africa coal, which is stained with the bloc of their countrymen. AN OUTBREAK OF COOLIES. RINGLEADERS ARRESTED. (Received 11. 55 a.m.) Durban. November 21. The efiolies on Harrison’s estate, te miles north of the city, began to di stroy property, and the native oolit arrested the ringleaders. A hire body of Indians overpowered the pi lice and rescued the prisoners. Eun pean police were dispatched an quelled the riot and re-arrested th ringleaders. Durban is quieter, and the prospect of an early resumption are more hopt fill.