THE INDIAN SITUATION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 1 December 1913, Page 5

THE INDIAN SITUATION.

AN UNIVERSAL BELIEF,

(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) DELHI. Nov. 29.

The Hon. G. Gokhale, a member of tho Viceroy's Council, in tho course of a speech at Delhi, said the South African Committee rightly or wrongly held the universal belief that throughout India the Imperial Government had far more solicitous feelings for the Europeans in South Africa than for its hundreds of .millions of Indian subject'?. If such a belief were allowed to grow into a settled convicticm, it woidd lead to the gravest results in India and throughout the Empire. Fortunately tho Viceroy's courageous utterances had greatly mitigated the dinger, shewing tho people that India's own Government was doing its utmost to allay the feeling.

A SERIOUS CHARGE

DISMISSED BY A MAGISTIUTE.

(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) FIFTF.RMARITZBI'R-G, Nov. 29.

Lieut.-Col. Sir Duncan Mackenzie was prosecuted for forcing Indians to work throughout Sundays, for supplying them with <hort rations, and for flogging thom with the slightest provocation. Tlio magistrate rejected the evidence of six of the complianants and their witnesses. There was prevarication in all the material points. The evidence showed that Sir Duncan Mackenzie .supplied better food than was prescribed by the Statute, and the work on Sundays was confined to milking the cows.