CHINESE ON THE RAND.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13586, 7 May 1906, Page 7

CHINESE ON THE RAND.

THE GOVERNMENT PROCLAMATION. YIKWS OF THE TRANSVAAL ITyKSS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. 'LONDON, May 4. (Received May 5, at 11. 2 n.m.) Tlio Westminster- Gazette (G.) denies that ttie Government pledges lmve thrown dpen tiio door to repatriation, and adds that its proclamation is in the nature of an emergency exit, to be used if ' circumstances justify such n sfep. (Received Mav 5, at 11.45 a.m.) The newspapers in the Transvaal blame the Government for refusing a full investigation into the facts before posting its proclamation. Tiio Daily Mail's Johannesburg correspondent 6ays the commission, which is just concluding . its • labours, will recommend the deportation of bad Chinese, adding that i? the gamblers and opium-smokers are deported the others will settle down. May 5. (Received May 6, at 5.13 p.m.) The Johannesburg Star declares that the Imperial Government is deliberately pledging the British taxpayers' money for an object which it admits is unnecessary, thereby incurring the risk of throwing thousands of white men idle.

The Transvaal Loader says: "The Government has abandoned its chargcs of cruelty and slavery, but lias gone out of its way to injure and insult us in order to give a semblance of truth to the statements made in its political campaign."