ASIATICS IN TRANSVAAL
REGISTRATION. DT IELEGBArH—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Pretoria, November 19. Eleven hundred free Chinese storekeepers in tho Transvaal have petitioned tho Chinese Minister in London, protesting .against die Asiatic Registration Act. Tho Act, they say, imposes a degrading inspection, reducing them to a lower level than the African natives. Such treatment, they urge, is only fit for slaves. They add that thoy aro willing to submit to voluntary registration; otherwise tho.v claim to be repatriated with full compensation. Tho provision of tho ordinance most complained of is tho indontification by fingerprint.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 49, 21 November 1907, Page 7
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