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INDIANS IN SOUTH AFRICA. PASSIVE RESISTANCE MOVEMENT. DURBAN, Sunday.

28 October 1913, The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), page 7

…Indians in South Africa. Passive Resistance Movement Durban, Sunday . — Eight Indians have been sentenced at Newcastle to imprisonment for two months for having taken part in the Indian miners’ strike against the tax of £3. Bombay, Sunday . — Mr. [Gopal Krishna] Gokhale is arranging to send £2000 a month for the relief of the Indian “passive resisters” in South Africa. He hopes that ultimately the Imperial Government will intervene, and effect a compromise.…

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INDIANS IN SOUTH AFRICA RESISTANCE AGAINST POLL TAX. FIVE HUNDRED ARRESTED. (Reuter's Cablegram.) Capetown, Thursday.

8 November 1913, Camperdown Chronicle (Vic. : 1877 - 1954), page 3

…Indians in South Africa Resistance Against Poll Tax. Five Hundred Arrested. (Reuter’s Cablegram.) Capetown, Thursday . — Three thousand Indian miners, who are striking against the £3 poll tax, crossed the border into the Transvaal at Charlestown, to-day , and thus courted arrest for contravening the Alien Immigration Act.…

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INDIANS IN SOUTH AFRICA. PASSIVE RESISTANCE CAMPAIGN. CAPETOWN, Nov. 6.

8 November 1913, The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), page 21

…Indians in South Africa Passive Resistance Campaign. Capetown, Nov. 6 . — Three thousand Indian miners who have struck against the payment of the poll tax crossed the Transvaal border at Charlestown. Five hundred others were previously arrested as deserters from a colliery.…

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AFRICAN INDIANS. POLL TAX STRIKE. SITUATION ALARMING. A REIGN OF TERROR. Durban, Nov. 18.

19 November 1913, The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), page 7

…African Indians. Poll Tax Strike. Situation Alarming. A Reign of Terror. Durban, Nov. 18 . — The strike of Indian miners in Natal as a protest against the £3 poll-tax imposed upon them is developing alarmingly. A reign of terror prevails on the north coast of Natal, the planters fearing that if the strikers get the upper hand the sugar cane fields and sugar mills, worth hundreds of thousands of pounds, are likely to be wiped out, as the sugar season is now right at its height. On one plantation yesterday 150 acres of cane were burned, the Indians standing by and…

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THE ASIATIC PROBLEM. INDIANS IN AFRICA AN IMPROVED OUTLOOK. AGREEMENT WITH THE GOVERNMENT. CAPE TOWN, January 22.

24 January 1914, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), page 19

…The Asiatic Problem. Indians in Africa An Improved Outlook. Agreement with the Government. Cape Town, January 22 . — The correspondence between the Secretary for the Interior (Mr. E.H.L. Gorges) and Mr. Ghandi, the Indian solicitor, who has been advising the Indians in their policy of passive resistance against the poll tax of the Union Government, has been published. The net result of the negotiations is that Mr. Ghandi promises to await the report of the Royal Commission appointed recently by the Government before reviving the passive resistance movement. Although Mr. Ghandi will not appear before the Commission as a witness, he is…