COLOUR ISSUE AGAIN
TRANSVAAL ORDINANCE. IMPENDING ARREST OF'INDIANS. GHANDI MUST QUIT. BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT, (Rce. Dec. 31, 0 a.m.) London, December 30. Ghandi has been ordered to quit the Transvaal in forty-eight hours. Eight othor Indians have olso been ordered to leave by January 7. . All of them.hayo decided to await arrest, and then to take legal opinion as to their position, iwithaview to appealing against any local'decision. : AN APPEAL'TO. DOWNING STREET. ■ ; ' ; Dccomber 30. The Moderates'of the Indian National Congress have appealed to Lord Elgin, Secretary of State for'the' Colonics, to intervene on behalf of Indians-in the Transvaal. With regard'to the appeal to Lord Elgin, the latter's 'personal sympathies are shown bv the. fact that\in the first place he disallowed the registration ordinance, but, as Secretary for'the Colonies, when the Transvaal Government again passed it through Parliament, he no longer withheld tho imperial assent. The : ordinance is hated by the Indians chiefly, because it enforces identification by finger prints. Ghandi is an Indian barrister, of Johannesburg, who has led the passive resistance to. tho ordinance, and .he has 'counselled-his "followers .to. go to gaol rather than give way. ' .
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 82, 31 December 1907, Page 5
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