INDIAN RISING IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1912, 21 November 1913, Page 7

INDIAN RISING IN SOUTH AFRICA.

—— ALLEGED CRUELTIES INQUIRED INTO DISTORTED REPORTS. VICEROY OF INDIA SUMMONS HIS COUNCIL. By Telegraph—Press Asaociation-Oopyright (Rec. November 21, 0.30 a.m.) London, November 20. South African correspondents hav"o faded to find evidence in support of the alleged flogging of Indian labourers. Investigation in one case showed that the alleged victim had died of bronchitis. ■Lord Arapthill, however, lias published a cable alleging that the employers are brutally flogging captured strikers. ; Johannesburg, November 20. A mass meeting of Indians has resolved that the Government must liberate . the imprisoned leaders. The meeting recorded its indignation that subjects of the Crown should have been flogged in tho mines and in public places by white and native officials of tho Gov- . crnmeut. ; Bombay, November 20. In view of tho gravo news reaching India from Indian sources in South Africa, the Viceroy (Lord Ha.rdingc) has arranged for an emergency meet-' ing of the Viceroy's Council on December 6, to discuss South African grievances. HINDUS IN UNITED STATES. Washington; November 19. Mr, W..8. Wilson/United States Secretary for Labour, while in San Francisco, . indicated that Congress was likoly to bo asked to provide laws to prevent Hindu immigration into the United States. The Commissioner-Gen-eral of Immigration, he said, proposed visiting .the Pacific Coast to investigate . and report upon the whole . question. Test cases are now pending in tho Courts, on the point as to whether Hindus' from »tho Philippines . shall be allowed to enter the United States.