South Africa

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 221, 18 March 1914, Page 5

South Africa

THE DEPORTED STRIKERS. CONCESSIONS IX THE INDEMNITY BILL. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright Received 17, 10.5 p.m. ) London, March 17. Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald, M.P., speaking at Leicester, said a movement was afoot to get f'e Labor parties of Canada, Australia and New Zealand lo bring combined pressure, qn the South African Government on behalf of the deporteds. DEPORTEDS NOT PERMANENT UNDESIRABLES. A GREAT DEMONSTRATION. AN INFLAMMATORY TELEGRAM. Beceived 17, 10.5 p.m. Capetown, March 17. The Indemnity Bill has passed " the committee stages. In the Senate, Mr. Smuts announced various concessions to the oeporteds, the principal being the deletion of the paragraph in the preamble dfiaring them to be permanent undesirables. At a Labor demonstration at Johannesburg, 5000 attended, and some 10.000 attended an overflow meeting. Mr. Cresswcll produced a telegram not to hesitate to shoot if the strikers, after/warning, tried to cuter railway premises. Mr. Cresswell demanded that if the document was false the Government should say so. The meeting passed a resolution condemning the Indemnity Bill DR. JAMESON ELECTIONEERING. A SWEEPING CONDEMNATION. Received 17, 11.20 p.m. London, March 17. Mr r J. G. S. McNeill, speaking in the. House of Commons, drew attention to Dr. Jameson's telling the settlers of Rhodesia, on the authority of the Colonial Office, that they must vote for the renewal of the charter or they would be included in the South Africa: Union. Mr. McNeill described the Chartered Company as a gang of swindlers. Mr. Harcourt, Secretary of State, for., the Colonies, in reply, said that Dr Jameson's quotation of the Colonial Office letter was wholly divorced from the context, and there was no justification for its use for electioneering purposes.