RIGHTS OF INDIANS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 114, 6 February 1908, Page 7

RIGHTS OF INDIANS.

DEBATE iN THE LOBDS.' "AN HONOURABLE AGREEMENT." r: ■•••'/', -■'>* OPPOSING FORCES. > H TSMDUiPn—I-BISB JISSOCIITIaN"—COfIKIGni. ,;• « (Rec, Fob. 5j 11' p.m.) . / London, February 5.' <■ !'i In the. Houso of Lords, Lord Ampthill ■ (formerly Governor of Bombay), raised a ■ debate on the treatment ot British Indians in the Transvttal. Ho expressed satisfaction : with the compromise arranged with regtird tr • tho finger-print registration, 'though the Government otight to have secured a settlement ' beforo granting tho : Transvaal self- ■■ govern'tnont. , > Lbrd. Curzon said, tho settlement was not final. The standpoints of tho and tho Colonials.were entirely different,' 'and the two forces wore pulling. m 'opposite directions.., He urged that restrictions, ought to . be.as little:;vexatious and injurious as pos- . sible. . The ,< educated ■ higher r glasses of . natives ought noi.to bs herded with men of lower degreo. J > ,•Lord- Elgin,; Secretary .for Stito, for the . .'Colonies},' said that *ant honourable S"ttlemeiU has been arranged <: satisfactorily hj : .both parties. : Indiansareoxcluded from '.he Colonies not ort-account of thoir bad qualv . ties, but becauso i-of . their ' good qualiti*is\ their patience, industry, and i temperance, which have made xhein ■•aiif'i i formidable competitors'to white men. Iti futuro tlie Indian "community Mn' the 1 Triii ;■ : vaal, though limitod m: numbers, would occupy a definite and an honourable' position. Lord Lansdowne, Minister for • /oreig i 1 Affairs in tho Balfour Government, r.aid >.ht V Government might have bargained; .to make Abetter terms. • , - i The subject dropped. , RESORT TO BOYCOTT. • (Rec. Feb. 5, 10.45 p.m.) ■ , Johannesburg, February 5." ; A'large meeting at Johapnesburg .inaugurated a boycott,of;,Asiatio traders .'ind iw.ployers ,of Asiatics; ; A--White League was formed to 3stablisn ' (committees-throivglioiit the Transvaal to t)b- . tain: pledges that the boycott will be carried » out. ' .'V,. : / - C'..V '- ' . -