South Africa.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 74, 27 November 1913, Page 5

South Africa.

THE INDIAN PROBLEM.

SUPPORT FROM OVERSEAS. ■ l ßy Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] (Received 9.20 a.m.) Durban, November 2b\ Large sums from Overseas continue to arrive at the Indian headquarters. Extra police Have been sent to Tongaata, where the Indians refused to listen to Rolkinghorne, protector of Indian emigrants in Rhodesia, who is offering unemployed Indians in Natal agricultural employment at £lO monthly and travelling expenses. DEMAND FOR AN INQUIRY. Madras, November 26. ! Lord Hardinge, replying to an adjdress, declared that the admissions in the official denial of ill-treatment of Indians were such that if the South lAfrican Government desired to justify itself in the eyes of India and the 'world, it had no alternative but to grant a searching inquiry, on which J Indian interests were represented.

DEPUTATION TURNED DOWN.

(Received 12.40 p.m.) London, November 2(5

Replying to a request of All-India South African League, Lord Harcourt said he regretted he was unable to receive the deputation concerning the disturhace in Natal, but he said he was prepared to consider any written statement.