SXCITEMENT IN INDIA.
A CRISIS APPREHENDED.
(Received 8.25 a.in.) Calcutta, December 4
Ate a great Bengali meeting in the “Toivn Hall the Maharajah of Burdwan demanded a searching enquiry regarding Natal. He urged retaliation by the repatriating of cwry Indian. The. audience got to such a pitch of emotion that the speeches were finally inaudible, the hysterical outbursts recalling revival meetings. A resolution was carried thanking the Viceroy for his intervention, protesting against the restrictions imposed on Indians in South Africa, and expressing indigntiou at the inhuman treatment of strikers. , Similar meetings were held in many places,and they suggest that unless something is done to allay the growing excitement a crisis may be apprehended - DURBAN PRISONERS'HUNGERSTRIKE. . : Durban, December 4. Fifty- Indians are hunger striking in the Durban gaol in order to obtain redress regarding the food, and clothes supplied. ,
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 81, 5 December 1913, Page 6
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139SXCITEMENT IN INDIA. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 81, 5 December 1913, Page 6
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