ANTI-COLOUR LAWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 85, 3 January 1908, Page 5

ANTI-COLOUR LAWS.

" * ■}' QUESTION OF POWER.

WHOSE ARM SUPPORTS . COLONIAL'

RESTRICTIONS? [

COULD JAPAN ENFORCE ENTRANCE?

Bt TBLBQBAKH—ritESS AESOCIATIOX-7-COrTP.IGHT. , (Roc. Jan. 2, 10.3 p.m.j) London, January 2. " Tho Times " oxpresses tho hopo that ,tho fact that a respite Las boon temporarily 'granted to tho Indians in tb« Transvaal, 1 who aro resisting tho Magistrate's orders 'to quit, may bo duo to counsels- of wisdom .. arid moderation from Lord Elgin, Secretory ifor the Colonies. " Tho Times " 'adds— ; " Tho, voico of the Imperial Government might oven now mako itself heard effectively in Pretoria,'to restrain tho' Transvaal from taking oxtromo measures towards Indians' already settled tliero." ' . ■

" Tho Times" .then warns tho jcolbnios that are most proudly proclaiming t^ieir '.determination to be Tvhit-0 countrios their absolute dependenco on tho Motherland, for protection for 'their' powers' to. remain, white. The paper 1 adds:— ' 1 ! :

" Without that pioteotlon, how long oould Australia, for example, exclude the Japanese? Not for .six ' - months after the Japanese had made up their minds, that the '.".'settling grounds In Australia were' worth an , expedition. .;.. - "The Imperial Government Is not ; without means of insisting on roason- ' able compromises in' thex?various . colonies in dealing with this — the ; gravest and most urgent of Imperial ' problems.' It is solvable only by a

direct appeal to the sense of Imperial responsibility of the sister States of trio Eoipire." '■

Tho closing remarks of "Tho Times "'' re-, fer to 'the Indian problem and the Asiatic difficulty, generally'. .

" INTERESTS, OF THE WEAKER." (Rec. Jan. 2, 9.16 p.m.)

!. Pretoria, January 2. A meeting of two thousand Indians at. Johannesburg resolved to continho rigorously their resistance to tho- Transvaal ■ Ordinance compelling registration of Asiatics by finger-, print. - ■ '

It" was resolved to protest agaiDst, tho action of. tho Under-Secretary for! tho Colonies (Lord Elgin) in sanctioning the Immigration Act, thus surrendering tho right and duty of protecting tho interests of tho weaker, unrepresented, parties, who, though British sub-, jeets, sufferfi loss,under tho former' Boer regime. '■ ■■ • ... ■ ' JAPAN'AND THE UNITED STATES. ' 1 . ToKlo, January 1. Japan agrees to'accept some of the' United States' suggestions regarding restrictions,' of emigration, but has courteously ■ declined others as-incompatible with Japan's dignity. At tho samo time she has outlined 1 other' plans; • - '