1 MARCH 1919, Page 12

INDIANS IN EAST AFRICA.

[To ran EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."'

Sue,—I would like to ask your correspondent Mr. John H. Harris if he can substantiate his statement—mode by him as en "historic fact "—that in 1895 there were in British East Africa "thousands of Indian colonists in substantial posi- tions." I think he will find the task beyond him. My previous letter on this subject was not intended to indicate that there were no Indiana in the country before the coolie immigration. That would have been incorrect, but I submit that their number was not large enough materially to affect the question to-day.—I am, Sir, Ac., ' Ifsevrrs.