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INDIANS OPPOSING NEW LAND LAW DEMONSTRATION IN CITY (Rec. 12 30 a.m.) LONDON, June 25. “South African police arrested 99 Indians and one European clergyman, who were protesting against the law restricting land purchases by Indians.” reports Reuter’s Durban correspondent. "The clergyman. the Rev. Guthrie Scott, who U a sympathiser, refused to leave the camp the Indians had established on Durban Corporation land as a demonstration against the land law. Those arrested include eight Indian women. “Several thousand Indians earlier gathered in one of the city’s 'main squares in defiance of the City Councils ban on meetings. The demonstrators resolved to continue passive resistance against the land law/’ STRIKE IN CEYLON CALLED OFF ACTION BY CONGRESS PARTY (Rec. 9.45 p.m.) COLOMBO, June 24. The Ceylon Indian Congress Party has called off the strike of 40,000 Indian labourers in the KeJani Vpßey rubber plantations, which is stated to have demonstrated sufficiently the depth of feeling of the Indian labourers on franchise and citizenship lights.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24911, 26 June 1946, Page 7
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