THE INDEMNITY BILL.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13420, 18 March 1914, Page 5

THE INDEMNITY BILL.

CONCESSIONS TO DEPORTEES

DEMONSTRATION AT JOHANNES-

BURG

(Received March 17,-10.5. p.m.)

Capetown, March 17.

The Indemnity Bill was passed 11.rough tlie committee stage in the Senate.

General Smuts announced that various concessions would be made to the deportees, the principal one being the deletion of the paragraph in the preamble declaring them to be permanently regarded as undesirables. A labour demonstration was held at Johannesburg, 5000 people being inside the,-hall, while 10,000 attended an overflow meeting.

Mr. CreswelL produced a telegram from General, Smuts instructing the /"authorities not to hesitate.to shoot if the strikers, after a warning, tried to enter railway premises.

Mr. Creswell demanded that if the document was false the Government should say so.

The meeting passed a resolution condemning the Indemnity Bill.