SOUTH AFRICA.
THE RECENT DEPORTATIONS. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] /.United Press Association.] London, April 2. Mr F. W. Goldstone, Labor member for Sunderland, in the House of Commons, moved that the rights of Britishers under the Magna Charter and Habeas Corpus Act, recognised under English common law, should be common to the whole Empire. The motion was directed at the South African deportations. Mr L. Harcourt, Secretary of State for the Colonies, said he was unable to accept the motion. He emphasised tho difficulty of dictating tho laws of self-governing dominions. He watered down the resolution to an expression of opinion that the House desires to see the freedom conferred by the Acts mentioned applied throughout the Empire.
Lord Hugh Cecil thought Mr Harcourt might have remonstrated with the South African Government, pointing out that they were transgressing all the principles of liberty. The amended motion was passed.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 87, 3 April 1914, Page 5
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147SOUTH AFRICA. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 87, 3 April 1914, Page 5
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