South Africa.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 74, 18 March 1914, Page 5

South Africa.

CASE OF THE DEPORTEDS.

COMBINED LABOR MOVEMENT.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.! Loudon, March 17.

Air Ramsay MacDonald M.P., speaking at Leicester, said a movement was afoot to get the Labor parties ot Canada, Australia, and New Zealand to bring combined pressure on the South African Government on behalf ot the deporteds. THE INDEMNITY BILL. f Capetown, March 17. The Indemnity Bill has passed the committee stages.

In the Senate, Air Smuts announced various concessions to the deporteds, tho principal being the deletion of the paragraph in the preamble declaring them to be permanent undesirables.

At a Labor demonstration at Johannesburg, 5000 attended, and some 10,000 attended an Overflow meeting. Air Cresswell produced a telegram not to hesitate to shoot if the strikers, after warning, tried to enter railway premises. Air Cresswell demanded that if the document was false the Government should say so. The meeting passed a resolution condemning tho Indemnity Bill.

THE CHARTERED COMPANY.

London, March 17

Mr J. G. S. McNeil, speaking n the House of Commons, drew atteuton to Dr. Jameson’s telling the settlers of Rhodesia, on the authority of the Colonial Office, that they must vote ihr the renewal of the charter hr they would bo included in the South Africa Union. Mr McNeill described the Chartered Company as a gang of swindlers.

Mr Harcourt, Secretary of State for the Colonies, in reply, said that Dr. Jameson’s quotation of the Colonial Office, letter was wholly divorced from the context, and there was no justification for its use for electioneering purposes.