**WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1918
BY TELEGRAPH. BY TELEGRAPH. BY TELEGRAPH
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
SOUTH AFRICAN INDIAN PROBLEM.
Lasnay, Dec. 2.
i
Authorities Redicant,"
Reuter's Durban correspondent telegraphs, that Mr. Smuts, after raking close inquiries on the spot, has returned to Pretoria. The authorities maintain their intention of not discussing the grievances of the Indians until order has been restored and the strike abandoned.
Importans Bins Book Issued.
Loxpos, Dec. 8
A Blue Book dealing with the negotiations upon the, Indian ques tion between July 8 and November 20 does not include correspondence
Lord Crewe, continuing his marks to the Deputation introduced by Sir. M. M. Bhownagrec, Said :—- Bome of the minor South African officiatis might be stupid or bound by reel tape, and others might be so rncially prejuhliced that, they had no wish to administer the law leniently His Lordship referred to the question of polygamy, and hid it was not with: the Indian Government, but claimed that South this ought to South Africa contari, frequent refer- Mr. Hurcourt's despatches to legalise this but polygamous com- ence to the representations of the munities demanded reasonable con-Indian Government, showing the sideration, Indians tecognised that later's concern regarding its subjects they, could not enjoy unrestricted and its unxiety-regarding the situs inter-provincial movement. He de tion as it developed. clured that there was regrettable obscurity and great difference of opinion in regard to the f tax and
(Router's Service to the China Mail)
BRITISH COLUMBIA": INDIAN PROBLEM,
A "MATTER. OF "GRAVE CONCERN.”
LONDON, Dec. 3.
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE P. AND O. SERVICE.
IMPORTANT ALTERATIONS.
The Local Superintendent
writes us – taip b recelva telegraphio adiada
pany's roanging direature in London, khas during the homeward paango sends the oil steamere will arrive at Sfarsailles am Friday about won, which will "canlin passungen insteading) overland by the special train from Marolles to ansive in London on Saturday ataenoon, insbad of Sunday afternoon as hitherto Parangern proceeding to England by sus will amire at Flymath on the following Thursday and London on Friday,
HOTEL BOYS SUMMONED,
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The Indian question is becoming « matter of grave consern in Canada The Judge who grant-d-the-Habana. Corpus writ in the case of the expelled Hindu priest on Nov. 91 has now fol- towed with a finding of the Chief Justice that Indians may only be ex eluded from British Columbia an account, Mr. Buchanan, it is Grand Hotel, PUDDINGS &
Cross Summons Against Mr. Reichmann.
I. the
idiocy, disease, crime or mendicancy, two dining room Cors and cook at the as in the case of other British subjects. Palice Court te terhicon for leaving The decision is not relished in British his servise without giving notion; there Columbia, where exclusion is strongly common gainst complain favoured. Conesquently it seem certain ant, dedondante each laiming
to regulate the Oriental influx. that new legislation will be demanded
:
3 drew the attention of Lord Crewe The Government of Fid on July
to the probable effect of an amend- It is noseworthy that every con ment of a clause of the Immigration stituency in British Columbia supports Bill referring to the admission of the Borden. Government, which will
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months' wages.
Mr. Dixon, of Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist, appeared for Mr. Reichmann, and Mr Russ, of Messrs. Goldring and Russ, appeared for the boys,
His Worship Baked Mr. Dixon, what
domicile questions when these were wives by the insertion of the word have a delicate teak in adjusting loot was the issue he had to tey and Mr. Dixon
last before the Union Government. monogamous" before the word The tax does not bring in a large re-
"marriage" and asked whether the venue, and does not seem to serve amendment was to be regarded as any useful purpose, Many of the over-riding the undertaking given by South Africans are opposed to it, yet Mr. Fischer that hotwithstanding it is the main source of the trouble government would admit one wife for the judgment in the Esop case the The greatest indignation in India has each man even though he was mar- been due to the stories of flogging.ried by a custom recognising a poly- These statements demand enquiry.guinous marriage. Mr. Harcourt re-
Gladstone on Angust 1+ adding that transmitted this dispatch to Lord while he relied upon Mr. Fischer' assurance, he would be glad to be, assured that the amendment did not affect it.
feeling, with Imperial considerations.
THE BURNS GLENRIDDELL.
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[replied that," the boy's said they were dis- mind, whilo, Mr. Reichmann said that they lets without docela starter tan
F. Reichman said that i puto special watchman with instructions: watch the first defendant, who was sus "pected" of "stealing. On November 7, his kitchen,
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what ho was doing with them he was LONDON, Dec. 3. flabbergasted and said he had been lock Reuter's New York correspondenting up the dining room. This room was locked an hour previously, Mr. Reich- telegraphs that at the St. Andrew's Day Dinner, Mr. John Gribbel.
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I am glad to see that Mr. Sinuts has gone to Natal to make enquiry in person. I need not say that the Imperial Government accepts and everyone ought to accept the state-
Lord Gladstone, on Sept. 22, ments made by a responsible Minis-stated that the Union of South Africa ter like Mr. Sants. It is altogether was fully prepared to carry out Mr. dig manufacturer and manuscript mirften. etc.. and he admitted stealing Fondants, crest wrong and purposeless for anyone to Fischer's promise, but this assurance collector,; anddenly rass and an- snipe and rico. Plaintif said he was adopt a tone of menace to South was subject to the reservation that nounced that he had bought from a
Africa. I believe that if South Africa sistance were carried out the Govern
if the threats to re-start passive re-Philadelphia dealer, the famous Burns agreed that the solidarity of the Emment would reconsider its policy of Glenriddell Manuscripts, and, that be pire is to be sustained by a form of aking any concessions whatever would prosent them to Scotland. enquiry which is not solely official, outside the provisions of the existing
The announcement was received with no sentiment of national or personal law. Mr. Harcourt, on October 9. deafening enthusiasm. Mr. Gribbel expressed the carriest hope that the amour propre ought to stand in the ill-advised action of a small number then produced two quarto volumes, way of such an investigation, which of Indians would not induce the and was accorded another ovation. ought to be directed not only into the Union to abandon its liberal policy [No.It will be remembered that the circumstances of the last few days wives of Indians to the country.
with reference to the entrance of the disposal of the manuscripts by the Livor
pool Atheneum was about to form the but into the substances of the comThe Colonial Other, replying to the subject of litigation at the instance of some plaints causing the restlessness
members of the Barns' family...] among the Indians in South Africa,
His Lordship concluded by saying that not only the India Office but the whole Government were giving their Fischer's undertaking, as she was. unremitting attention to the subject.exchided upon the ground that the The Colonial Office were also anxious husband had previously married ano- that complete justice should be done ther woman in Natal. In another to the Indian subjects of the King
in South Africa.
Lord Crewe, replying to questions, Anid that in stating his conviction thut some enquiry not merely official was desirable, he was expressing his own view, but he had no reason to suppose that that view was opposed by his colleagues.
South Africa and British India Com exclusion of the woman Kulsumbibi mittee on October 22 stated that thei
man added. Ee soused the second Carlsbad Plums, defendunt of steeling snipe, chickene,
surprised that defendant should be such years, and he told the thate defendanta a thief after having been there so many that he was calling in the police to in
Chocolates. Marrons Glace.
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Fruits.
vestigate next day. Next morning the place was in disorder and the three dants called next day and he naked why boys were not "at their work. Defon- Crystalized they had leat without notice. Defen- dants said they wanted their wages, and witnes sold them they would not get any. About six daya afterwards, c^& Sunday morning, the Aesond and third defendants called again and the Chinees clerk spoke to the Neither be ter Mrs. Reichmann over dimissed the boys. Crom-examined Mr. Reichmann said the Box tendant (the No. one boy).
did not constitute a breach of Mr. THE TIBETAN NEGOTIATIONS. had been with him since he took over the
LONDON, Dec.
THE MISSING JEWELS.
Cosaques.
Orders are Solicited early so as to ensure execution.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
hotel, the No. two boy for three years and, the dook, on and off, for seven years.
some time. He had no complaint to He had been suspicious of the boys for
-Life by Sh Edmund Gook. aka saivat the honesty of the send The case was adjourned till 2.15 pro volumes The Life of Florence Moers Macmillan published recently
Nightingala," by Sir Edward, Cook.
defendant.
SO-MOTOW.
THE YOLUNTEER CAMP.
Llout, Col. A. Chapman, V.D., Com. mandant of the Hongkong Voluntoor Corps, has sent the following letter to local firms
By his access to Mim Nightingale's
dispatch Mr. Harcourt assured In- Henry MacMahon, Foroiga Sertary to A Deibi telegram states that Col. Sir
linister's pledge, given in a letter. the Chinese and Tibetan plenipotenti dians that they could rely upon the the Government of Indie, song with, The dispatches in the main reportarias, has arrived at Delhi. the progress of the passive resistance movement and the protest meetings hell by the Indians, and there is u long correspondence which passed between Mr. Ghandi und Mr. Georges, Permanent Secretary for the Interior in South Africa, in a final effort to secure a satisfactory settlement. Lord Crewe sent Mir, Harcourt copies of the unofficial tele. Connaught are merely a gift from H grams which he received at the India R. E. to a former aide-de-camp, and the Volunteers in your Firm may be mariago. She wrote on her 60th birth The Daily Telegraph emphasises Office from India, which were not include a Garter pin and sleave links the possibility of anything re-printed, and added that he viewed sembling pressure such as was use with the gravest concern the ingren: bearing the initials and crest of the able towards foreign nationalities.sion produced in India by the allega. Duke of Connaught,
London Prend Comments.
If the members of the family were to remain a family they must com- pose their differences by means of persuasion and mediation, not dicta torial methods implying a menace. They were glad that Lord Crowe em. phasised this, and felt confident that Sir Louis Botha and his colleagues will fully recognise that the import- Ace suggested by the inquiry was not merely official.
tions that Indians had been treated with great severity. He asked for an authoritative statement and Lord Gladstone replied, detailing the ar rests, sentences, etc.
Replying to an inquiry by Mr. Harcourt with reference to some of
LONDON, Dec. 2. The jewels which the Daily Mail reported as stolen from the Duke of
OBITUARY
LONDON, Dec. 8.
The death is announced of Mr.
THE ZABERN AFFAIR.
Conillet Sharper Than Evor?
LONDON, Dee7:2 Two youths were arrested at Zaber yesterday for laughing at the patron and anoibar for singing. The conflict between the civil and military authori
the heavier sentences, Lord Glad Stodall, the well known racehorse stone, on November 20, said it ap-. peared that the magistrate at New Wor castle ordered 127 unindentured The Daily News emphasises the labourers to pay. "85 or serve aix Imperial character of the question, months imprisonment, the maxi- and says that the inquiry should be mum penalty, being three months' an Imperial one in the fullest sense hard labour, and steps were being of the word. It was impossible to taken to have the excess of the sen- ignore or altogether condemn the tences remitted. strong prejudice of South African The London Moslem League wrote opinion. It was a perfectly honest to Mr Harcourt on November 24 opinion based upon certain facts calling his attention to the gravity which were fatal, at least, to some of the situation, and appealing to f the very large demands made by him to urge upon the Union of South the Indians yesterday. Compro- Africa the necessity of taking in
ise, therefore, was the only course mediate remedial measures and sharper than overd possible, and the administration of directing an independent investiga- such compromise should be placed tion into the Indians grievances. ia-the hands of the Union Governr Harcourt replied to this letter ment, with the assurance that it on the 29th, stating that the League would not be allowed to slip back did not appear to be fully and 80- Info les control at Natal, the weak curately informed as to the stag
ess whereof was the kernel of all the lion. The open defiance of the law. trouble
by Indiana in South Africa The Daily Mail says that Lord seriously embarassed him the con
tly deprecated the tone of tinuance of his represen but they were hopeful that allowed to assist in the frien would have sufficiens with the Government and
the British position in
ometang to allay the
there.ST
that Bir
Angthor Regratiäble. Incident
Pet Volunteer Headquarterwä
Hongkong, 2nd Degember, 1912. Sir.-I have the honour to request that
given as much leave as possible to attend
the Annual Campus at th
diary and to many letters to hot friends Sir Edward Cook has succeeded in pre- sexting to the world a romackablegatody in self-corelation. It appears 1850, at the age of 80, Mim Nigh had definitely abandoned all thoughts
day
I 80, the age at which Christ began! It is proposed to go into Camp on His mission. Now, no more-obildish Friday evening, 9th January, wid to things, no more vain things, no more trn on Sunday afternoon, 18th Januarovo, no more marriage. Now, Lord, los and leave, for this period is suited for if pomiblaste
It leave for whole period cannot Always
me only think of Thy will
This unciation, however, Edward Cook's
bo granted in specially requested that
ing and stay till Monday night, and sise-
may be given for Saturday 10th enable members to join ch Friday Leela the
Ideitity
for Friday and Saturday, 18th and 17th,
to enable member to go out to Camp où admire Thursday evening and eley till the " Enacted.
Attendance at Camp in specially necessary for members of the Azillery Battery the whole of the practice at widchi Bakes place during Camp, and attendazod fat as lost ons such practice, is a odi.
Sha doît drawn to [Cook, writes), NOG DY":
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because the mons grostor pleurs did ciety.
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