AFFAIRS IN NATAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9052, 11 February 1908, Page 5

AFFAIRS IN NATAL.

CABLE NEWS.

United Press!Association-By Electric Telegraph Copyright.

MR JELLICOE INTERVIEWED

DINIZULU'S TRIAL

MARTIAL LAW IN ZULULAND

Received February 10, 9.12 p.m LONDON, February 10.

Reuter's correspondent at Johannesburg states that in an interview Mr E. G. Jellicoe, formerly of Wellington, New Zealand, who was defending the chief Dinizulu, charged with treason, and who lias relinquished his brief, and is returning to England, said that Dinizulu'a trial wculd be delayed for months. Martial law in Zululand was not likely to be withdrawn until the Royal assent to the Natal Indemnity Act had been secured; otherwise the Government must fear prosecutions for killing and flogging natives. Mr Jellicoe added that Natal had broken faith with the Imperial Government.

CHARGES AGAINST THE PROSECUTION.

"A JUDICIAL OUTRAGE."

SERIOUS ACCUSATIONS,

Received February 10, 10.12 p.m LONDON, February 10.

Mr E. G. Jellicoe, in a letter to Sir M. Nathan (Governor of Natal), charges the prosecution with persistently preventing Dinizulu obtaining evidence for hi» defence. He des? cribed the proceedings as a judicial outrage. "Dinizulu's trial is a political one," states Mr Jellicoe. "You are aware that, with Lord Elgin's concurrence, I came to defend Dinizulr. Owing to the mendacity of the local press, :engendered by the influence of political and ether adventurers seeking to exploit four million acres reserved to the natives, and •vho find that Dinizulu is an obstach in the way of their schemes, a strong opinion has grown in Natal that Dinizulu is disloyal." The letter proceeds to allege that witnesses are forced, under martial law, to incriminate Dinizulu, and are not allowed an opportunity to withdraw their statements.

Mr Jelli°oe claims to possess evideno 'that unresisting natives were shot under martial law, and that hundreds of Dinizulu's witnesses were arrested and hidden.

The "Daily Telegraph's" Maritzburg correspondent states that the Minister of Defence declares that the statement that natives were flogged to obtain evidence is ridiculous. The natives were flogged because of their insplence, and the punishment was mild. The correspondent adds: "Great indignation is expressed at Mr Jellicoe not remaining to substantiate his accusations. Mr Jellicoe has quarrelled with all the law officers in Maritzburg."

NATIVES SENTENCED AND

FLOGGED

Received February 10, 9.12 p.m LONDON, February 10

In the House of Commons Mr Winston Churchill, in reply to a question put to him by Sir Henry Cotton, Liberal M.P. for Nottingham East, quoted from a despatch of Sir M. Nathan's, in which it was stated that in response to an inquiry Colonel McKenzie, who is in charge of the forces in Natal, reported that during the recent military operations in Zululand five natives were tried, sentenced and flogged.