VANCOUVER MUDDLE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 156, 26 March 1908, Page 7

VANCOUVER MUDDLE.

IMMIGRATION RULES.

A BRITISH ENVOY TO DE SENT. HINDU PROTEST. ' BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Vancouver, j March 24. A mass meeting of Indians at Vancouver cabled to tho Eight Hon. John Morley (Secrotary of State for India) protesting'against their deportation or exclusion from Canada, and declaring that as British subjects thoy claimed Government protection throughout the Empire. They added that if their interests were overlookod tho people of India would resent it. GOOD PRINCIPLE CARRIED TOO FAR. (Rec. March 25, 10.50 p.m.) Ottawa, March 25. The Prime Minister, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, speaking, in the Dominion! Houso of Commons, explained with reference to the Hindus' protest that admittance was refused to all Asiatic and European immigrants unless - they were furnished with through tickets from tho' country of their origin. / With: reference to the German who was refused admittance (cabled on March 16), Sir Wilfrid Laurier thought that it was carrying a good principle too '• HINDUS TO BE RELEASED. (Rec. March 25, 10JG0 p.m.) London, March' 25. The Vancouver correspondent of "The Times"/ reports that, in the absence of the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Clement decided that the Order-in-Council of January 8 is illegal technically. His Honour, therefore, ordered that the Hindus be released. SPEECH BY MR. MORLEY. . i ■ QUESTION INTRICATE,. PERHAPS DANGEROUS. , ' (Rec. March, 25, 9.49 p.m.) • . , London, March 25. - In the House of Commons, the Secretary for India (Mr. John Morley), referring to the Indians'- meeting of protest ■ in' Vancouver, ' stated. ' * 1 ' 1 : ..., ;;: "After consulting the Indian Govern-' ;'. merit,-.and in cd-operation with, the .Colonial Office, wo-arc sending . an envoy to tho-Dominion Government j in the iiopo of terminating,-if pos- ' ■■.• Bible, this extremely difficult,"intri- .. •, cate, and possibly dangerous ques- ■' tion." - . The - Minister's statement was i received with cheers. '•

DESIRABLE IMMIGRANT REFUSED. ; It was cabled on January li tlmt the new immigration regulations provide' that immigrants to ;Can!ida must book through passages from the land-of their birth or citizenship. On March 1G was cabled' the ease of tho German who—presumably under theso regulations —was ; refused admittance; because, although a desirable, immigrant, lie came from Australia. Tho regulations were apparently designed to meet not cases of this sort, but those of Asiatics who' mado the- Sandwich Islands a. mustering ground prior do descending on the Pacific coast. The Vancouver correspondent of "The Times" commented on March 1G that the immigration situation is becoming an absurd,/dangerous muddle." \