ASIATICS IN TRANSVAAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13728, 18 August 1908, Page 5

ASIATICS IN TRANSVAAL.

REBELLIOUS DEMONSTRATION.

INDIANS WILL NOT BE SERFS.

' By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. (Received August 18, 8.30 a.m.) JOHANNESBURG, August 17. A meeting of Asiatics was held hero for the purpose of protesting against the new Asiatic registration law. Three thousand Asiatics were present. Four hundred burned the certificates given them by the Transvaal Government to entitle them to remain in the country. Gandhi, the Indian barrister who took a prominent part in tho recent successful agitation against the fingerprint registration law, addressed the meeting. He declared that he would prefer spending his life in gaol to seeing British Indians treated as serfs.