The Deporteds.
LABOUR’S DEGRADATION. A DISCREET SILENCE, (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Assoot‘-tton. ] (Received 9 a.in.) London, February 17. Correspondents and the deported Labour leaders conversed through a megaphone. Waterston said lie was going to ascertain what the British law courts would decide respecting General Botha’s action. Bain, their leader, silenced them when they began to refer to General Botha’s methods. OPINION OF THE DEPORTEDS. Poutsma, when asked whether it was true that a plot existed to overthrow the Government, replied “The Government lost their heads. They went mad. Such ideas are silly.”
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 41, 18 February 1914, Page 5
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