ADMISSION TO CANADA.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 153, 2 July 1914, Page 4

ADMISSION TO CANADA.

THE KOMAGATA MARU CASE.

• ARGUMENT OF COUNSEL

[Press Association.]

VANCOUVER, June 30. ; Inasmuch as it is especially pro-'1 vided that officers of the military aijcl naval forces and their wives and! families are not to be considered immigrants applying for admission toCanada, counsel for the Immigrajtioir Department in the Komagata Mara case argued that it was thereby assumed that British subjects were tobe considered immigrants. The same section stated that on retiring from: their functions they were to be "considered subject to the clauses of theImmigration Act. If nowhere else ifr was clear that Canada had the right to exclude British subjects of other, Dommions.

During the morning 71 volumes of Jaw books were laid out on ther iawyers' table for reference during; argument.