A Lucknow Protest.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 73, 26 November 1913, Page 5

A Lucknow Protest.

THE INDIAN QUESTION.

PRACTICAL SUPPORT. ißy Electric Telegraph—Copyright] ITaies—.Sydney .Sun Special Carles (.Received 8.0 a.in.) Bombay, .November 2-" i. i At a meeing of ten thousand Indians at Lucknow, a resolution of protest was passed against the treat-i inent meted out to members of their j race in South Africa. The sum of £IBOO was subscribed to the Passive Resistance Fund. I STATEMENT BY GENERAL BOTHA I [United Press Association.! Capetown, November 20. in congress, Ceneral Hotha made a statement on tlie Indian question. He regretted t’nat false allegations had been circulated by irresponsibles. A great responsibility rested on the | English and Indian Press. The Government had exercised the greatest consideration and generosity to the j Indians, who had really declared war (against the South African laws. The iGovernmetit would maintain law and order at all costs and do everything to see that no one in connection with tin' Natal strike was illtreated. The Whites had been addl'd to the colored

races who looked to the whites fop j justice anil should receive it. He repudiated General Hertzog’s allegations that lie favored an Imperial federal system, under which all other parliaments y should he subordinate. This was an ill-conceived proposal, and emanated from Xew Zealand at the Imperial Conference where he, .n company with the British, Canadian, and Australian premiers opposed it. He would he a traitor if he ever tolerated anything affecting South African autonomy. He pointed out that the safeguarding of South African rights was not incompatible with attachment to the Empire.

THE CONSTITUTIONAL METHOD. STRIKE EXTENDING IN ZULULAND. (Received S.fid a.m.) Capetown. November 2d. The Chief Magistrate at Maritzhurg, in sentencing fifty municipal strikers, warned the Indians that they must protest against the head-tax constitutionally, otherwise, they would alienate all the sympathy of the Whites.

Tho leaclinc; members of the Opposition in Johannesburg, while opposing unrestricted Asiatic immigration, urge tiie abolition of the tax.

The strike is extending in Zululand and is affecting the sugar mills.

Delhi, November 25

The Civil and Military Gazette states that Viscount Gladstone’s despatches dispose of the charges of ill-treatment, hut in view of the agitation in India support the demand for an impartial inquiry.