EXERCISE OF VETO?

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 24 November 1913, Page 5

EXERCISE OF VETO?

REGARDING SOUTH AFRICAN LAW. BOMBAY INDIANS' SUGGESTION. 'Times' —'Sydney Sun' Special Cables. (Received Nov. 22, 8.30 a.m.) CALCUTTA, Nov. 21. The South 'African Committee at Bombay has sent a .message to the Viceroy. After referring to what is described as "measures of cruelty and oppression which no foreign Government dare enforce against British subjects," the message says it is apprehended that "if bloodshed occurs in Natal the effect on Indian sentiment will prove disastrous, the turn of events feeing calculated to seriously imperil faith in Britain's goodwill towards the Indian people.'' The message beseeches the Imperial Government to exercise its veto in regard to the South African law,

INDIGNATION UNEQUALLED. (Received Not?. 22, 11 a.m.) BOMBAY, Nov. 21. iSensational telegrams of alleged outrages on Iridiansi in South Africa are fostering the agitation here. The indignatiom has been unequalled for many years. Lady Petit, wife of Sir Dinshaw Manockjee Petit (chairman and member of almost all the Parsee charitable institutions of Bombay), presiding at a meeting of English-Indian ladies, convened by the Aga Khan, said the world was horrified. No civilised Government had previously converted the mifles into gaols and the mine-owners into gaolers, with power to flog for continuing to strike. The Bombay Presidency Association has telegraphed to the Viceroy that such treatment of Indiana as has occurred in South Africa would be a casus belli if it happened in a foreign country. Subscriptions in support of Indians in South Africa are coming in freely, Lofcrd Gladstone (Governor-General of South Africa), Generals Smuts and Botha (Prime Minister), and the late Mr Fischer (South African Minister for the Interior), were burned in effigy during a mass meeting at Allahabad. . The Calcutta newspaper Statesman says that a dignified course would be for the Indians to withdraw from a country where they are not wanted. The newspaper Bengalee suggests tjjpt the Government of India should stop the purchase of South African coal, whicih is stained with the blood of India's countrymen.

DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY. PRISONERS RESCUED FROM POLICE. (Received Nov. 22, 11 a.m.) DURBAN, Nov. 21. The coolies on Harrison's ©state, ten miles north of the city, began to destroy property. The native police arrested the ringleaders, but a large body of Indians- overpowered the po*lice and rescued the prisoners. European police were despatched to quell the riot, and rearrested the ringleaders. Durban is quieter, and prospects of an early resumption of work are more hopeful.