Second Edition British and Foreign.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 November 1913, Page 3

Second Edition British and Foreign.

[JXECTKIC -TELEGHAriI, COPYIUGHT. J [l'Elt PRESS ASSOCIATION*. 1 (Received This Day, 9.5 a.m.) BUSINESS MEN ALARMED. London, .Nov. 27. The Irish. Unionist Alliance has issued a manifesto, signed by leading , business men in the three southern provinces, declaring their alarm -at the financial prospect under Home Rule. INDIANS IN SOUTH AFRICA. Madras, 2s ov. 27. Replying to an address from the Jndia Mercantile Association and the Madras Provincial Congress Committee, in which retaliatory measures were urged, Lord Hardinge recalled that when the emigration of indentured Indians in Natal was forbidden in 1911, the Natal planters begged for its consideration. This was an indication as to how hardly the prohibition hit them. Unfortunately it was difficult to iind means to make the South' African Government seriously feel India's indignation. Lord Hardinge strongly expressed personal sympathy with the Indians' resistance of the invidious and unjust laws. Though the Union (iovernment categorically denied barbaris and retaliatory inasures, the denial contains admissions indicating that the Government did not exercise a wise discretion in dealing with the situation. There are passionate meetings being held throughout India. Ten thousand daily is subscribed for the relief of Indians in Natal. London, Nov. 27. The daily Mail's Calcutta correspondent says the general opinion in India is that Lord Hardinge has made the confusion worse The Chronicle says that neither General Botha nor Lord Hardinge has chosen careful language, and particularly regrets the latter is undiplomatically adding fuel to the fire. The Daily News says it is ineumbent on the Imperial Government to step in without delay. Capetown, Nov. 27. The Hon. Sir Thomas Smartt, in a speech, said he regretted Lord Hardinge's statements. An enormous obligation rested on all of them to settle differences. The South African Government was responsible for a great deal of the trouble, but the Indians must fully recognise that while any section was in active hostility to the law it was absolutely impossible to treat with them. In the affray which took place between the police and the Indians on tke Blackburne estate,, at Mount Edgecombe, five Indians are reported to have been killed. Delhi, Nov. 27. Anglo-Indian opinion is inclining to favour South Africa, on the ground of the. paramount necessity of jestoring order. .The newspapers "Englishman" and "Statesman , ' disapprove of the Viceroy's memorandum as being untimely. Indian feeling is growing; more excited, and a monster meeting to protest against the treatment of Indians in South Africais being arranged, at which the Maharajah of Bard wan will preside.