PROTEST AGAINST RESTRICTIVE LEGISLATION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 26, 31 January 1908, Page 7

PROTEST AGAINST RESTRICTIVE LEGISLATION.

RETALIATION SUGGESTED. I ' 'i BOMBAY, 30th January. Seven thousand Hindus, Mohammedanr/j and Parsees, and many prominent Eur o • peans met in the Town riall in Bomb a y and protested against the Transva aYs anti-Asiatic legislation. Several heated speeches were « /a de. The introduction of a Retaliatory A. it into the Indian Legislative Counci'^ was suggested. British Ministers and Parliament were Unanimously urged to prevent 'a justice to and ill-treatment of Indian subjects, which is producing a growing *;^!use of wrong and universal indiguati or. in India. ■ A number of Indians, including some Mi-soldiers whb had fought, in several campaigns, were recencly -jrdered to leave the country aud othe" £. were fined or imprisoned for refusin g to comply •with the registration law ; This last requires the fiDger-prinls <j} the licensee «3 a rnsan3 of idenlificat' c n, which the Tndians consider degradi ft g, as it puts them on a levei with criminals. Mr. Ghandi is an Indian barrister. lie was ordored to leavo t,he country, and was sentenced to two 'months' imprisonment without hard la J} our for havin" defied th') law.