ASIATICS IN THE VAAL.
CERTIFICATES BURNED. TREATED LIKE SERFS. (Beceived 0.30 a.m.) JOHAXXESBITRG, August 17. A meeting of 3000 Asiatics in Johannesburg burnt 400 certificates granted to Indians and Chinese. Ghandhi, the Indian leader, declared that he preferred a lifetime in gaol to seeing British Indians treated as serfs. EMPIRE'S RACE PROBLEMS. CANADA'S SPLENDID EXAMPLE. (Received 0.30 a.m.) LONDON, August 17. Commenting on the difficulty of dealing with race problems, '"The Times" urges patience, sympathy, and forbearance between Britain and the autonomous colonies. It believes tha-t Australia will not be backward in following Canada's splendid example, which ought to reconcile Imperial and local interests.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 197, 18 August 1908, Page 5
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