COLOUR PROBLEM.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 93, 13 January 1908, Page 7

COLOUR PROBLEM.

THE BLACK FLAG. TRANSVAAL' SENDS INDIANS TO GAOL. GHANDI GISTS ' TWO ' MONTHS. f)T TEI.EQBArH—I'RESS ASSOCIATION"—COPTRIGHT, (Rec. Jan. 12, 4.20 p.m;) , • Pretoria, January 11. Soveti Indians have been sentenced at : Pretoria to throo months' imprisonrltent for' disobeying a magistrate's order to. quit tho Transvaal. Defendants wcro, in addition, fined £100. Threo others were ordered to pay £50, failing payment of, which each will bo imprisoned for a further three months; .Four of these Indians had l had largo looal, business connections. Mr. Ghandi (tho Indian barrister who has led tlio passive resistance to tho registration ordinance) and fivo other Indians have'been sentenced to two months' imprisonment with; out hard labour for haying defied the'law. At' tho close ■ of the 'court proceedings a proccssion of ilndiaiis marched .through the 'streets of Johannesburg carrying black flags. ,i '' CANADA'S RESTRICTIONS. WILL STOP THE INDIRECT INFLUX. ■•'■■■' (Roc.. Jan. 12, 4.42 p.ni.) Ottawa, January 11. ' Advices' froni Victoria, British' Columbia, : state that , tho new immigration regulations provide that immigrants to , Canada must book through 1 passages from the land of their birth or citizenship.': , Tho regulations, which will become Operative!. immediately, will stop tho influx of Japanese via Hawaii, and •of Hindus via Hong Ivons- -■■■■■•>