THE TRANSVAAL.

Bush Advocate, Volume XX, Issue 940, 6 February 1908, Page 5

THE TRANSVAAL.

• BOYCOTT OF ASIATICS.

Press Assn— By telegraph— Copyright. JOHANNESBURG, Yesterday. V large meeting at Johannesburg, inaugurated to boycott Asiatic traders and employers of Asiatics, an organisation called tho Whito League, was formed and will establish a committee throughout the Transvaal to obtain pledges of boycott. LONDON, Yesterday. Lord Ampthill raised a debate in the House of Lords on the treatment of British Indians in tho Transvaal. He expressed satisfaction that a compromise had been arranged, though tho Government ought to have secured a settlement beforo granting tho Transvaal self-government. Lord Curzon said the settlement was not final from tho standpoints of the Indians and colonials which were entirely different. The two forces we.ro pulling in opposite directions, and ho' urged that the restrictions ought to be as little vexatious and , injurious, as possible. • The educated and' higlier classes of natives ought not to be horded with men of lower- "degree. Lord Elgin said;that an honorable settlement had been,. arranged which was satisfactory to both parties. The \ Indians were excluded from the colonies not on account of their bad qualities, but because of their good qualities — patient industry, frugality and temperance — which made them such formidable competitors to tho whito men. In future the Indian community in the Transvaal, though limited in numbers, would occupy a definite and honorable position. r Tho Marquis of Lansdowne said the Government might have bargained and made better terms. The subject then dropped.