THE NAIROBI FLOGGINGS.
LONDON, .'April 12. The newspapers criticise ...the. refusal -of Lord Elgin, Secretary .of .Stateifor. the Colonies, itoi.interfere -with.the. sentences of imprisonment iandifine, passed on Captain and. other white men at. NarobL,.administrative centre of JBritish East Africa. . This is the case ,in which members, of the Nairobi Colonists' Association took the law .into .their o.wn,hands, and punished,,natives for insulting white women. lLord EJgin announced in.the House of .Commons that the officer,, administering .at Nairobi reported ..that the insult,to'.white women was not serious, and..only amounted .to. rudeness and idisobedience; and that Captain GjßQgan .and four Britishers ..flogged ik& natives, despite the intervention of jpolicef..onicers.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8400, 15 April 1907, Page 5
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105THE NAIROBI FLOGGINGS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8400, 15 April 1907, Page 5
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