A WAY OUT.
OR. GBANDI SUGGESTS COMPROMISE IN Transvaal. ,■ COMPULSION, TO -BE ELIMINATED. \ 4.. -• A REGISTER FORM. ; 91 TSLBQIUM—FKES3 ACBOCIATION— COPTRIQHT, < (Reo. Jan. 9, 10.35 p.m.) . Pretoria) January 9. Mr. Ghandi, tho.lndian barrister of-Johan-nesburg,'who-has. bocn.'leading tho passive 'registers' to tho; registration, ordinance, and who . has been : counselling them to acccpt gaol in ' preference to registering on such terms, ha 3 mado a proposal in tho way of compromise. - v - •He undertakes that, if the element of compulsion is eliminated from the registration system, within a month every Indian in tho Transvaal will bo registered in accordance '. with a form to be ; mutually agreed upon. DELAY ADVISED. -j - ... .. . , A SOUTH AFRICAN CONFERENCE. Durban, January 8. Tho " Natal Meroury " urges the Transvaal to postpone action under the Asiatic ordinanco'ponding a conference it Pretoria, when statesmen from the • wholo of Sbuth Africa might devise a.solution. j,. In'- a recent speech, tlie Transvaal • Colonial Secretary, Mr. Smuts, said the Government dul not expect the: Registration Act to cause as much/trouble as. it bad done. ~ . . Thousands ;of Indians werel willing to register if thay, wbre not -intimidated. They, might be aUowed 'another chance of; registering. .-
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 91, 10 January 1908, Page 7
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190A WAY OUT. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 91, 10 January 1908, Page 7
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