INDIAN PROBLEM IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1923, 4 December 1913, Page 7

INDIAN PROBLEM IN SOUTH AFRICA.

_ OFFICIAL HISTORY IN BLUE BOOK. EMBARRASSED MINISTER*

By Telegraph-Press Association-Cops-riuiit

(lice. December 3, Mys p.m.)

London, December 3. A Ulue Book covering t!n> history of the Intliaii question in South j\iri,- a ironi August till November 29 shows that Mr. Lewis Harcoiirt (Secretary of State for the Colonies), in bis dispatches made (refluent references to the Indian Slovcrnmcjit'/i anxiety regarding tlio situation, nnd reveals his reply to the London Moslem League. It was pointed out that the League did not appear to have been fully 'informed'of the Indians' open defiance of the law, and that this'had- seriously embarrassed the continuance of his representations to the. South African. Government. ANOTHER STRIKE-] 23 IMPRISONED. . (Rcc. December 3, 10.30' p.m.) Durban, December 3. The newspapers in South Africa welcome the reply given by the Marquis of Crewe, (.Secretary of State for India) to the Indian South African League's deputation, A further strike at the sugar refineries resulted in the sentencing of 123 Indians to seven days' imprisonment. OFFENSIVE DISCRIMINATION. • London, December 3. "The Times," commenting on the position in South Africa, says:—•"Englishmen are actually rejected by hundreds by British Governments annually, and Indians cannot ask for privileges rightly denied to Englishmen. But- they can ask that there shall not be discrimination that is offensive to their race. That is their only claim in regard to entrance to South Africa." "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. Caps Town, December 2. Public, opinion in South Africa is unanimous that the settlement of the Asiatic question must be left unreservedly to the Union, as it is a domestic problem, to bo settled bv her independently. A PLOT DISeeVERGD, SMUGGLING HINDUS INTO CANADA. (Rec. December 3, 9.10 p.m.) Ottawa, December 3. A smuggling plot to secure tho entrance, of large lnim'lxrrs of Hindus into Canada lias been discovered at Vancouver. Four incoming Hindus who were arrested perjured themselves, stating that they had boon in Vancouver previously, and were, how returning from India. priest is alleged to have supplied tho men with maps of sufficient Iccal detail to enable them to pass the immigration investigation. It is understood that hundreds of others were ready to follow; if tho first four had not been discovered.