INDEMNITY BILL

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2010, 18 March 1914, Page 7

INDEMNITY BILL

CONCESSIONS TO DEFORTEDS ANNOUNCED, PSRMANENT UNDESIRABLES DROPPED Eγ "iPelsffraph-press AJeo'eiatlom—OojyrldH {Rec. March 17, 10.5 p.m.) toridon, March 17, , Mr, Bflmsay MacdoHald, M..1 , ., sptaking at Leicester, said that a inoveiitc-iit was oh foot to gut iiio Labour Parties m Oauada, Australia, and New Zealand to bring tlioir combined pressure to tear en tho South African Government oji oehalf'of to d&pofted strike loaders. Cape Town, March 17. Tlje Indemnity IJili has passed through Cwmnittco iji the Senate. G!efr oral Sarats announced that various concessions had been granted to the departeds, the principal one lieing the deletion in tho preamblo declaring'them to be i>ernian«it}y imdesiraWes. At, a Labour demonstration Wd at Jolmnuedjurg, a crowd of 61)00 filled the hall. Aitotliir 10,000 atteiwlod an overflow nicotine; outsiifc. : Mn Cresswall (Uuboiir M.P.), at the. ftieoting, produced tt telegram from General S'Muts instrttctiug thc nuthoiities not to hesitate to shoot if the strikers, after diift warning, trie<l to outer railway jsremises. M.c. <3r'ess«'ell demanded that if tho doßumeat werb false, the- Govern- ■ iuefit shourd say so. _ 'ffee roeeting feaolved that the Indemnity Bill bo condemned. '