FALSE ALLEGATIONS

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14833, 26 November 1913, Page 9

FALSE ALLEGATIONS

INDIAN WAR AGAINST LAW

JUSTICE TO BE METED OUT

(Received November 2oth. 11.25 p:ra.) CAPE TOWN. November 25. At tho National Congress, General Botha, in a statement on tho Indian question, said he regretted that falso allegations had been circulated by irresponsible people, and a great responsibility rested on tho English and Indian Press. The Government had exercised the greatest consideration and generosity towards tho Indians, who had really declared war against the South African laws. Tho Government would maintain law and order at all costs, and would do everything in its power to see that no one connected with tho Natal strike was ill-treated by whites. Ho added that coloured races who looked to tho whites for justice should receive it. He repudiated General Hcrtzog's allegations that he favoured an Imperial ..Federal system of Government, to which all other Parliaments would bo subordinated. This ill-conceived proposal emanated from New Zealand at tho Imperial Conference, and he, in company with the British, Canadian, and Australian Premiers, had opposed it. Ho said he would bo a traitor if ho' over tolerated anything affecting South African autonomy, and pointed out that safeguarding South African rights was not incompatible, with attachment for tho Empire.