AFRICA’S COLOURED RACES.

Taihape Daily Times, 3 February 1919, Page 5

AFRICA’S COLOURED RACES.

OPPOSED TO GERMAN RULE

CAPETOWN, January 31. A deputation from the African political organisation ,representing coloured people, presented a resolution to the Governor-General. The resolution was passed by a Targe nurhber of meetings throughout the Union, urging that the conquered territories should not be handed back to Germany, and that none of these territories be incorporated in the Union until the coloured people of the Cape received the rights of which they were deprived , by the Act of Union; and also full political rights be excluded to the coloured people of the rest of the Union. The resolution that no coloured people of the rest of the Union The resolution, “aTso urged that no coloured disabilities, be placed on the people of these territories. The Governor-General undertook to transmit the resolution, but pointed out that a certain paragraph fell cnirely within the responsibility 'of the Union Government, and with which the Imperial Government could not under any circumstnnccs interfere.