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Show CRUISER WILL CONVOY HINDUS Warship to Escort Steamer I Beyond Three-Mile Limit of Vancouver Harbor. FIGHTERS ARE JUBILANT Indian Subjects of Great Britain Brit-ain Incensed at Exclusion from Canadian Soil. Vancouver, B. C, July 20. No move will be made for a couplo or das to take the Komagata Maru and her Hindu passehgera out of the harbor Such was the decision reached today The likelihood then is that the Can adian cruiser Rainbow will be ready to cross from Esquimau, where she has been repairing for the purpose of convoying the Japanese vessel beyond l the three-mile limit, if not further. The Hindus on tbe Komagata are In a jubilant mood today, though relaxing re-laxing none of their watchfulness. The. tug Sea Lion Is circling around the big vessel and relays of men are standing guard to give the alarm for repelling boarders. On shore there Is a division in the ranks of local Hindus and in tbe Sikh temple last night there wag the nearest approach to gunplay there has been seen in Hindu town for some time, when one accused another of treachery. Of the men wounded in Sunday morning's battle, only two of the po-remain po-remain in tbe hospital suffering from their Injuries and these. It i? expected, will be out in the course ot a few day 3. Tbe orders of the dominion government govern-ment to gt the Komagata out of the harbor as quickly as possible will result re-sult in the vessel being sent away within forty-eight hours probably with the assistance of Admiral Kingsmill and his crew on the Rainbow A pitched battle between Immigration Immigra-tion inspectors, special police and th' Hindus took plaie on board the Komagata Ko-magata early Sunday morning when the ship's officers asked shore aiu in handling their belligerent passengers. passen-gers. The Hindus, it was said, used force in preventing the officers from getting the ship under way. The Komagata has been in the har bor three months, during which the Hindus have displayed ugliness and this has been intensified since the dominion government decided ,that they are undesirable aliens and not entitled to entrance. The expense of the trip to Vancouver Vancouv-er was borne by Gurdit Singh, a wealthy weal-thy Hindu, who chartered the vessel. In port during the long stay while, their status was being determined the Hindus have been provisioned both by their countrymen ashore and the British Columbian authorities. Food sufficient for the trip back to the orient, was stored in the vessel last week. |