SOUTH AFRICAN STRIKE.

Clutha Leader, Volume XL, Issue 41, 21 November 1913, Page 3

SOUTH AFRICAN STRIKE.

INDIANS' DEMANDS.

A GENERAL RIOT,

DURBAN, Nov. 19. One thousand Indians marched to Ladysmith and demanded the release of a number of compatriots' arrested earlier in the dav.

The magistrate agreed, but while the released prisoners were being oonducted through the town the Indians broke the cordon of police and a general riot ensued. An excited mob assailed the polico. with' stones and sticks. Twenty were wounded.

The carbineers and 25 police, armed with sticks, stampeded the Indians after a hot encounter, several being injured. The commandant was obliged to call off the native police, fearing they would kill the Indians.

Later the Indians, armed with iron standards,.assembled in an Indian temple in a threatening manner. SIGNS OF SCHISM. DURBAN, Nov. in. The Mayor called out the citizen volunteers and served out arms and ammunition. The strikers were forced to return to Elandslaagte. The Indian® in Natal mi ruber 150,000, ou+'Himbering the whites. _ The opponents of Asiatics in Durban aire hailing the riots as a long-awaited opportunity for the furtherance of their idMl of a White South Africa, There are signs of schism, among the Indians. The educated section plates a campaign of instruction, Ihoy s-\y that the' strikers are docile tools in tba hands of, the agitators who are fomenting wlitical disturbances in India. The violence.is contrary to the exorders of the Indians' leaders m Natal.

FEELING IN INDIA. CALCUTTA. Nov. 19. Natal telegrams alleging ill-treatment are arousing intense feeling in India,