IN THE BALKANS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3093, 25 May 1917, Page 5

IN THE BALKANS

BULGARS ANXIOUS ABOUT THEIR CAPITAL. :' • ' Rome, May 23. Bulgarian advices state that great defensive works have been begun around Sofia, under the suporvisiou of German engineers.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. MASSACRE OP SERBS AT NISH. Zurich, May 23. . Not a single Serbian remains at Nish, Those who failed to escape were either imprisoned or massacred.—Aus.-N.H. Cable. Assn.

INDIAN INDENTURED LABOUR

SYSTEM WILL NOT BE REVIVED. (Kec. May 24, 5.5 p.m.) London, May 23. , Mr. Austen Chamberlain, in a statement regarding India' 6 admission to the Imperial War Cabinet announced that indentured emigration from India would' l not bo revived.—Reuter. A committee which investigated the (subject of emigration from India, reported, in 1911:— That, subject to certain recommendations in regard to individual colonies, the system of indentured immigration as Actually worked is not open to serious objection in the interests of the immigrant labourer. ' ' That Indian immigration is of the greatest assistance in developing the resources of some of our tropicaf colonies and in increasing'their,prosperity. That, in the present condition of India, indentured emigration is the only practicable form of emigration to distant colonies on any considerable scale. That emigration, under indenture for private employers should be permitted only to such colonies as offer an opportunity to the time-expired immigrant to settle in an independent capacity on the land.

It follows that emigration of this nature should only bo permitted te such colonies as have sparo land capable of development.