ANTI-CHINESE CRUSADE.
PROTEST AGAINST COLONIAL
LEGISLATION*
[By Eleotbio Telegraph.—Copyright.] [Per Press Association.]
Melbourne, March 17.
The Secretary for the Colonies sends as a Circular Note to the Australian Governments the memorandum of the Chinese Ambassador in London protesting against the exceptional legislation of the colonies in relation to the Chinese. Lord Knutsford asks that the Government shall make a report on the exceptional Chinese legislation in force in each colony and the results with which such legislation has been attended, in order that Lord Salisbury may reply to the memorandum which is the result of the recent visit of the Chinese Commissioners to the colonies. The memorandum points out that the Chinese are not exceptionally treated in Crown colonies, and that at the Straits Settlement, at Hongkong, and even in some of the Australian colonies, the representatives of Her Majesty have borne
testimony to the value of the Chinese and to their orderly behaviour. The memorandum further protests against the exceptional treatment which the Chinese receive in the Australian colonies, and asks for the elimination of any laws which may be at variance with Treaty obligations and opposed to international usage.
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Evening Star, Issue 7474, 19 March 1888, Page 4
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191ANTI-CHINESE CRUSADE. Evening Star, Issue 7474, 19 March 1888, Page 4
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