The African Deportations.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 43, 20 February 1914, Page 5

The African Deportations.

"CROSSLY ILLEGAL." BUT HIGHLY NECESSARY. [By Electric Teleouaph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] (Received 8.40 a.m.) Capetown, February 19. Mr Burton declared that he had not acted as a constitutional lawyer, but in the bona fide conviction that the deportation of the ringleaders was necessary. He would do the same under similar circumstances, and admitted that deportations were grossly illegal.; but men of the class deported constituted a real white peril to the country. Mr Smartt said that the proclamation of martial law had the support of a vast majority of the country. The deportations were a mistake. The Government should have submitted a Bill authorising the deportation. Immediately Parliament opened he would support the Government rather than take the responsibility of allowing the deported men to return and continue their nefarious practices. Mr Hull said he regarded the story of the widespread conspiracy merely as an afterthought to justify the deportations. It was the height of nonsense to allege there was a conspiracy because nine jackasses made inflammatory speeches, which were the root and cause of the unhappy relations between the masters and men at. Yolkstein. Mr Harcourt interpreted with absolute accuracy the Imperial position and deserved the unstinted gratitude of the Empire for his sagacious and necessary warning against offensive criticism of Colonial politics by English Parliamentarians. DELUDED, BAMBOOZLED AND DUPED BY RASCALS. (Received 11.55 a.m.) Capetown, February 19.. Mr Burton, Minister for Native Affairs, declared that the railwaymen were deluded, bamboozled, and duped bjr rascals. According to the secret code of the railway men's society preparations were made to run trains and issue an ultimatum against Earl Gladstone and the Government.,