SERIOUS DEADLOCK

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2208, 22 July 1914, Page 7

SERIOUS DEADLOCK

WITH HINDUS INDIAN IMMIGRANTS GIVE TROUBLE . WILL FIGHT IT OUT By TeleErajli—Pmss Association—CopjrrieM Vancouver, July 20. The Duke of Connaught (Go'vernorGeneral of Canada) telegraphed to .the Hindus aboard the Komagata Main asking thom to prcservo pcacc, as the Government is fully cognisant of, their claims, and will give them every justice, but warning them that the Canadian laws -must bo observed.. Tho Immigration authorities are now awaiting tho arrival of tlie cruiser Rainbow with; a special force of bluejackets. The Hindus declare they will fight to a finish, and it is likely., therefore, that a bombardment of the Komagata Maru is tho only solution of tho extraordinary deadlock. Gurdit Singh, the leader of the immigrants, asserted that the Hindus would all dio lighting rather than leave. " HINDUS PREPARING FOR ACTION. Vancouver, July 20., The Japanese Government lias advised its Consul at Vancouver to Temovo tho Japanese crew from the Komagata Maru. Tho Hindus are erecting barricades on tho decks and fashioning clubs. They' obviously intend to offer a determined resistance". ( A contingent of bluejackers from' tlie : cruiser Niobo has arrived en route to Victoria to join tho Rainbow. There is great excitement'in British Columbia over tho possibility of antiAsiatic disturbances. The authorities are taking precautions to maintain order. ■ V SEDITIONIST MOVEMENTS. PLANS TO MURDER OFFICIALS. (Rec. July 21,' 8.25 p.m.) Vancouver, July 21. Mr. Stevens, a member of the Federal Legislature, announced at a public meeting, that lie possessed proof of attempts planned against the lives of tho captain of the Komagata, the Immigration officials, and others who he Iras unable lo specify at that moment, and evidently - a seditionist movement; iis spreading.' Gurdit Singh, the leader of the Komagata Hindus, has offered for a bribe;to bring all the passengers home again, but the Immigration offi-i cors liavc refused to consider tho 'offer. APPEAL FROM AN INDIAN.' "Times" and.' Sydney "Sun" Services. V Cape .Town, July 20. Mr. Gandhi, the leader of tlie Indian pacific resisters in South Africa,' is en routo to India. Ho has appealed to European friends to take a, humanitarian and Imperial view of the Indian question, with a-view to a settlement on such lines as should be fruitful in. tho great future. ASIATICS IN THE PACIFIC. Sydney, .July 21. The "Daily Telegraph"- is republishing from a New Zealand newspaper tho account of rapidly-increasing Chinese settlement in Tahiti, and says: "This indicates development of grave, far-reach-ing importance.": ' After referring to the flooding of Hawaii with Japanese and Fiji with Hindus,, and tlie: danger arising therefrom, the paper'says': "It . might yet turn out that, while the Japs overwhelmed the Hawaii,;tlie':'.Chinese, had greatly gained: predominance iit; other groups, and a new formidable Asiatic forco had suddenly risen up m the Pacific." > ■