A SOLDIER'S REWARD

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 87, 6 January 1908, Page 7

A SOLDIER'S REWARD

TBANSVAAt EVICTIONS. ; THE HARSH SIDE OF ANTI-COLOUR ./ , 'I LAWS. . ' ■ ~: ; , MEDALS DO NOT COUNT. , HI XELEGEArn—peess assooiatiom—COMKlGHl. (Ree. Jan.' 5, 4.15 p.m.) * Capetown) January 4. One ofsthb Indians who are .to bo.doportod from ; tho Transvaal, for not registering under tho "finger-print" ordinanco, served in four Indian campaigns and in the Boer war, and was thrico wounded. Ho has won many medals. His father was on Lord ; Roberts's staff at Kandahar. . ' . ; Another of tho Indians who are", to be deported served for thirty years in the Indian Army. . . , . . . , , . ;■ ■ EMPIRE CITIZENSHIP. / RIGHTS OE AUTONOMOUS COLONIES. '■ ' London, January, 3. The " Daily News," referring to the Asiatie difficulty, says:—-"It is much more urgent that the colonies should assist in defining the ■ status of the British citizcn than dreaming that they will bo able to find in trade ,or Imperial • defence a basis of Imperial unity." . ; 1 The "Manchester Guardian" declares that Lord Elgin is powerless to modify tho. underlying the Transvaal registration law. It would be impossible to disallow the law without imperilling even greater -interests than those of Indian emigrants. ' Kandahar, commemorated in Lord Roberts's present title; was the: objective of Lord Roberts's memorable march during the Afghan war of 1880. i