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THE TRANSVAAL STRUGGLE Like the siege of Gibraltar the attack p the Transvaal Citadel of Indian estnal honour and manhood has been ard on during three long and weary 3-517 fr has been signalised by much ot treachery and foul play on the part of the binger and redeemed by much of berog mostly unconscious, on that of the heged. On the one hand, may
set broken pledges, shameful allega tions, ale of confidence, slander of a confidence, slander of a whole community, ho king ill-treatinent, cruel injustice: en the other, wonderful courage and endurance, boldness and fortitude, selfSacrifice and self-restraint, determination and persistency, devotion and patroitism, self-respect and self-development.
Whilst the Transvaal Government have had all the power of the State at their commands a whilst they have been able to supply secretly false information and doctored facts to the Imperial (iovernment without the unhappy Indians hav ing an opportunity for reply until months fterwards when the poison had already done it work; whilst they have been able to use all the terrorism that are associated in the public mind with indiscriminata Police intrusion, wholesale arrests, ill treatment and semi-starvation in gnal, hostile magistrates arbitrary deportation, the ruin consequent upon forced sales of goods, undue pressure brought to hear by European wholesale merebants, and a dozen other manifesttions of an ompromising authority; the unfortunate victims of this policy of suppression and annihilation of a whole ommunity have only one weapon of defenca willingness to suffer every hardship, even death itself, for the sake of conscience, and because they believed that right was on their side. It is not go ing too far to state that the welfare of the
tira Indian community in the Transvaal 1:1 the hands of less t'inn half-a-dozen men ng arbitrarily. Let us take a concrete ince. A pre war Indian resident of Transvaal returns to the Colony 1 Jet us say, after leaving it in 1902 or thly part of 10 He is ignorant rangement whereby the commu y agred with Lord Milner to re-regis soletarily. On the strength of his utn Registration Certificate he ha nd the Transvaal before the Court's decision that such a would not act as a Permit. He Etered in a perfectly bona fide 11 applied for registration luntary period last year, but foot any explanation Leine r reason of the refusal is produce a Milner Registra
Permit, and the fact fs Dutch Pass rendes & went to the autho u quainted with ruppwa now that, rippchenslor, he Det under Act :0 of tion, marked "reAnd of the Registrar. 1 te fer further evid
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ence of pre-war residener. He is at once assumed to be an unlawful entrant his application is refused, and a warrant is issued for his arrest. It is true that he has A right of appeal against the Registrar's decision but this he probably does not know, and he may not be able to afford to pay counsel to conduct the appeal. He is arrested, formally brought before the Magistrate and orderd to be deported from the Colony. There is no ap peal from the Magistrates order, which in administrative and not judicial and the fate of this man, a lawful resident is thus in the hands of the Registrar a Police Superintendent and a Magis trate each acting arbitrarily. He may be snatched away from his family who unprovided for and sent away to India are thus left in all probability, quite without the possibility of making any Affective protest. Cases have been known where men born in the Transvaal have. been put over the border of that Colony, and there has recently arrived in India a man who was born in Natal and domiciled River Colony,
who was deported in this way. The Sawa gandha Wine
Transvaal Government have acted in a lawless manner again and again, safe in the knowledge that most of their victims are unable to ek redress. Again and again the Supreme Court has condemned their action and now. they Recuro themselves even against this by arranging with the Protuguese authorities of the Province of Mozambi que to detain deported Indians and send them to India instead of giving them the opportunity to return receive sentence as prohibited immigrants and appeal to the Supreme Court against the sentence with the object of defend ding their claims.
Throughout all this trouble the Transvaal Indians have exercised a patience and a forbearance that have extorted the unwill. ing admiration even of those who have been. most hostile to their demands. Men and hoys have gone to goal repeatedly for the sake of the cause. Their country's honour was at stake, there was the solomn oath that they had taken to die in goal rather than shamefully surren der and they felt that the whole feat. ure of the community was in their hands. The women cheerfully went their husbands, brothers and sons to starvation and degradation in prison the rather than that they should suffer deeper degradation of betrayal of their thren.
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There have been over 2, 500 convic tions; there have been ruined businesses; there has been mental and phy. sical torture; there have been deaths. Hearts have been broken, families have hon surrendered, homes have been destoyed, happines has vanished. The mal remnant who are still continuing the struggle mostly Madrassis, have worn to die in goal, unless the Tranvaal (invernment concede the just de
mands of the community.
And now the Transvaal Indiana appeal p to India to help. They appointed four delegates to place the position before the Indian Pub'ic and authorites three of thean were arrested and imprisoned wo that the departure of the Dentation might be prevented. Thus the Transvaal the Indians in the Transvaal. The la Government have time to bind and gag tter in their tremity, a to India to offer so powe fu a. "xpression of oninion, that I'l unnort that he can gi willie the Tniperia!
Government
to interven to procure A atisfactory settlementMr. H. 8, I. Polah in the Indian Reime.
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