ASIATICS IN TRANSVAAL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 16, 14 October 1907, Page 7

ASIATICS IN TRANSVAAL.

PEPIANT lifRIEST. ■' "''\'Z ■• REFUSER ,TO LEAVE THE" COLON! 7 , BY TELEORAPH— PRESS ■ASSOOIATION-t-COPYRIGHT,' (Reo. Oct. 13, 4.25 p.m.) v' I Pretqrja,', Q'ctpbqr 12. Tho renasval of. a temporary, held by a Hindu priest in Johannesburg I 'has' been rpfused, and ho has bepn-prfler.ed to instantly quit, the cplony. . ' .-,?'•'' ! The priest declines to.obey-itho.jprder', on the ground that, he has a higher duty to perform.' .''.. '.-" .-..''' , lt ''li.-ii.,^!,.-../

i A LIBERALS OPINION,

BY ASSOpUTION-r-qOPiBIGHT, ' Pretprja, Octpber li,- ; "' Kef erring to his pabled c}iqi|\jm',*Vfter seeing the oomppuuds, thatj the Chinese, are ''the 1 snojlpl children pf thq : Spicor (who is the Libord, of Hackney Central in tlie Houso of' Commons) declares that ho is still utterly.pppbseditp .Chinese iinraigration into thq:,Tr.ans l v l aa]i.r ;

The : passivp .' resistance of, 'Hiiiiiu'a' \ 'TrahsYaal 1 ' tp the' -Botha Gbvnrnineiit's' : pplio'y may possibly evolve linothoi' critical 'pfiaeii' o,f tho Imperial colour issue. Out of 13,Q0Q,;Asi4tip4 in tho, Transvaal, 'less tliau' SOQ have registered/ under the hated registration' prainance,'"wKiqli' roqHireg' registration by "of., finger .Vimpyession.-. A few days ago the .Qovflfnmeht through Mr. Smuts (Colonial .'' Seeretary),'. •warned thq resident,lndians, thaj^thpsejwhq.qre l without- i'ogißtr(itipn '■ after. Jfove.jiiljerji'wiliy, re-' ceivfi\ no.'renewal,of trading lic'eusfl aud.-.will bq , lifiblo . (,o arrest and deportflt'ib.uT'' 'J The Government," said:llr.' Smuts,. •'is ideterminid : to'makp tho Transvaala' white iman'gopi^n't|ry^ { ' . sj» - August it )v'as' stated t)mt',3ridia"ii" ,'jno'rr, blia'nts, ttotermined to resist th'jf.'la^r', 1 ' wore 'reducing their Istocks in view, of':the posaibility of being compelled to leave'the'country. An Indian hah-ister, of 'Johannesburg,, named' Ghandi, is actively counselling,resistance... He declares that lio is proparpd to go to gaol and that the rank .and file.-are. pledged to -follow 'him. , '- '.- ■'■:'■' r ■■■'■ •'■■' '.". ■ ••■■K'r:!/V.''-; J s ,