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APOLOGY TO INDIAN AGENTGENERAL. A STINK POT THROWN. . tustralian Press Assn.—United Servioe (Received this day at 9.30 a.m). CAPETOWN, Sept. 17.
The Minister of the Interior on behalf of the Government apologised to Hon. Sastri (Agent-General for India) for an unpleasant incident at Klerksdiop on Saturday. Hon. Sastri attended a municipal banquet given in his honour, where the Deputy-Mayor interrupted Sastri fre-quently,-eventually shouting : “We did not come here to listen to an Indian.”:. ....
In-: the hubbub the lights were switched off and a stink bomb was thrown in the midst of the assembly, the .chemical bursting into flames.
The Mayor summoned the gathering to the open air and characterised tlie perpetrators as cowards. The Deputy-Mayor while disclaiming responsibility for the bomb, states drastic action is necessary to counter the Government’s pro 7 Asiatic policy.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 September 1928, Page 2
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