SOUTH AFRICA.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 35, 18 March 1914, Page 7

SOUTH AFRICA.

IN THE ASSEMBLY. THE INDEMNITY BILL. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright. CAPE TOWN, March 17. The Indemnity Bill . has passed through the Committee stage in the Senate. General Smuts announced various concessions to the deported men, the principal being: the deletion of the paragraph in the preamble of the Bill declaring them undesirables permanently. At a Labour demonstration in Johannesburg, five thousand '.people were inside thei hall, and t6n thousand'attended* an overflow meeting. Mr Cresswell produced a telegram; frox» General Smuts instructing the authorities not to hesitate to shoot if the strikers, after warning, tried to enter the railway premises. Mr Cresswell demanded that if the document were false, the Government should say so. •• The meetings passed a resolution condemning the Indemnity Bill. TO BRING PRESSURE. LONDON, March 17. Mr Ramsay Mac Donald, speaking at Leicester, said a movement was afoot to get the Labour Parties of Canada, Australia, arid New Zealand to bring combined pressure on the South African Government on behalf of the deported men.