INDIANS IN AFRICA.
PASSIVE RESISTANCE MOVE. g.j EtKCfRIO TELEGRAPH COPYRIGHT. PEE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received September 27, 9 a.m JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 20 The arrangements made by the Indians for passive resistance m the. Transvaal are complete and the new Bolicy will begin next week. . The 16 Indians who. while nating a football match, crossed the border from Natal, and were sentenced w> three SanthV imprisonment for •J™**™: "on of the Immigration Act, wife, daughter and sons of Mr Jv. Gandhi, the Indian barrister who has for some time been fomenting agitation among the South African Indians and who is directing the campaign. The chairman of the BritishIndian Association, in a letter to the Secretary of the Interior, demanded the removal of the racial bar in the Immigration Act,, the restoration of the rights of Indiana, and the removal of the tax on 1 -letters of indenture The letter added that.it thoj demands were not granted pas-siye re•fetanoe would bo revived and w be confined to the Transvaal. Worn** -jroald also participate in, tha ■"**- went.
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Mataura Ensign, 27 September 1913, Page 5
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