AUTHORITIES DEFIED BY HINDUS
♦ —— DEADLOCK AT VANCOUVER By Tcleer&ph—Press Association—Oopyriebt (Rec. July J9, 5.5 p.m.) Vancouver, July 18. Tho Immigration Department has ordered , Captain Yamamato, master of tho Koniagata Maru, to leave tho harbour, with the Hnidu passengers, an order for whoso deportation was made out. Captain Yamamato tried to raise steam, but tho Hindus attacked him with clubs and obliged him to leave tho Komagata Maru. Tho owners and agents warned the Hindus that they would bring tho police aboard to conduct them outside tho three-mile limit and leave them to starve or find their way home. - Tho Hindus defied the authorities, refusing to leave Canadian waters until their passages are refunded and a supply of provisions granted. The deadlock continues. POLICE BEATEN OFF. SEVERAL OF THEM WOUNDED. (Rec. July 20, 0.55 a.m.) Vancouver, July 18. Tho Hindus on the Komagata Maru beat off two hundred people, and immit ration; officials, when the latter eneavoured to tow tho Komagata seaward, h . Several of the police were wounded. Hindu! were shot, but it is not known if they ; i were fatally injured.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2206, 20 July 1914, Page 5
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182AUTHORITIES DEFIED BY HINDUS Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2206, 20 July 1914, Page 5
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