INDIANS AND EQUALITY.

Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15273, 25 June 1923, Page 5

INDIANS AND EQUALITY.

DRASTIC RESOLUTIONS.

DDISORIMINATION RESENTED. RETALIATORY PROPOSALS. 1 Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. DELHI, June 21. In the Assembly notice has been given of several motions for the July session advocating retaliatory measures against the Dominions and colonies. As regards Grown colonies, a member will move to impress on the steps be taken to impress upon the British Colonial Office that if Indians are denied the right of British citizenship and equality of treatment with white settlers, the Indian Government will be compelled, in retaliation, to suspend the further emigration of assisted labour to any British colony whatsoever.

The same member will also move for the release of Gandhi and other political prisoners, and the removal of their disqualifications so that they can stand for legislatures. Another member's motion is more sweeping still. As retaliatory measures, he wants the Government to legislate that the conditions of entry of colonials to India be the same as the conditions Indians are subjected to in the part of the Empire whence the colonial hails, likewise the conditions of domicile and naturalisation; the absolute prohibition of admission to Indian harbours of ships owned by companies registered in the colonies, or ships manned by colonials, and finally a levy of double customs duties on'all imports from other parts of the Empire, where there are restrictions of any kind against Indians. The newspapers ridicule'these molions as likely to do more harm than good by creating a bad impression throughout the Empire, but it is noticeable that Indian resentment is growing about the treatment of Indians abroad, particularly in Kenya.