HC Deb 17 May 1905 vol 146 cc613-4
MR. LEVY (Leicestershire, Loughborough)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will take steps to ascertain whether in some of the compounds in South Africa Chinese who refuse to go down the mines unless paid 2s. per day are tied up to a pole by their pigtails and then thrashed.

(Answered by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton.) If the hon. Member will satisfy me that there is even a prima facie authenticity in this story I will make inquiry respecting it.