ASIATIC PROBLEM.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 27, 31 January 1908, Page 5

ASIATIC PROBLEM.

TRANSVAAL. EXCLUSION. UNIVERSAL INDIGNATION IN INOIA. BOMBAY, January 30. Seven thousand Hindus, Mohammedans, and. Paxsees, and many prominent Europeans met in the Town Hall, Day-to-day to protest against the vaal legislation, against Asiatics. Several heated speeches were made and the introduction ol a retaliatory Act into the Indian Legislative Council was suggested. ' A motion was unanimously carried ugmg the British Government to prevent : the injustice and illtreatment of Indians in South Africa. There is universal indignation in India. CANADA AND JAPAN. APPROVAL OP TOKIO CONCESSIONS. OTTAWA, January 30. A motion submitted iv the Dominion ! House of Commons by Mr R. L. Borden, i Leader of the Opposition, protesting ( against the arrangements relating to : Japanese immigration was negatived by a majority of 55. 1 Sir Wilfrid Laurier declared that he I knew Japan did not include in the Ja- | panese treaty of 1894 a clause restrict- j ; ing imJiigration. "We are," he eon- ! i tinued, "in a better position without such a provision than the United States with it, because we ran rely upon Japan's good faith." i Referring to the value of the Anglo- ! Japanese alliance, he remarked that in ' the event of war they might see the fleets of Japan and Great Britain united in the North Pacific against a common enemy, Japan's fleet weighing anchor at Vancouver for the protection of British interests. CONCESSIONS BY TRANSVAAL GOVERNMENT. (Beceived 9.30 a-m.) LONDON, January 30. The "Standard's"' Johannesburg correspondent says that in accordance with recent of the Colonial Office signatures will supersede finger-prints, while Ghandi and other distinguished Indians will be released.