NEWS OF THE WEEK.
BY far the most interesting and startling event of the week has been the deportation of the ten Labour leaders by the Government of the South African Union. The leaders were arrested during the strike and imprisoned in the fort at Johannesburg. On Monday night they were roused from their sleep and taken in a prison-van to a suburban railway station. There they were placed in a special train, and taken under armed escort to Durban. They arrived at Durban on Wednesday. and were instantly put on hoard the Umgeni,' in which the greater part of the accommodation had been reserved for the Government. The steamer, which is owned by Messrs. Bullard, King, and Co., at once started for England. She is stated to be carry- lug seven ordinary passengers as well as the deported men, and is to touch nowhere except at Las Palmas. General Botha is asking the South African Parliament for an indemnity for the illegal and extra-legal measures, including, of course, the deportation, which he has taken during the strike.
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