South Africa, particularly Natal, has been much disturbed during the
week by the agitation of Indians against the peculiar restrictions to which they are liable. We have written on the subject fully in a leading article, but we may add here that, while the strike is collapsing in Durban and in the collieries, it is extending on the sugar estates. The Durban correspondent of the Times says, in a message published on Friday, that in Natal the charges of cruelty brought, by the Indians against planters are keenly resented. We can well believe that, and sympathize with the resent- ment. But when we are told that "the prevailing feeling is one of determination not to submit to the Indian demands," we can only trust that the blank negation of Natal does not represent the opinion of the rest of South Africa as to how this very difficult problem ought to be handled.
