PROBLEM OF THE CENTURY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 305, 30 December 1907, Page 3

PROBLEM OF THE CENTURY

AN"f II'ATHY 01' EAST AND WKsT. ROYAL ASSENT TO TUANsYAAL IMMIGRATION Al l". THE TIMES' SUGGESTION". IMPERIAL COMMISSION" OF IN' VEST IGATON, Received 28th, 4.32 p.m. London, December 2S. The Times says the Imperial a.-scnt to Immigration Restriction Ac! enables the Transvaal to enforce Asiatic registrations, by deporting passive registers. The Times recommend* the Imperial Secretariat to organise a commission representing the Empire, to investigate the Asiatic problem, and make plain the mutual difficulties, and if possible take the evidence of Pome of our most exclusive colonies. While impossible to entirely bang the door against the growing tide of the population of the East, it might possibly also convince us that the unrestrained, immigration of Asiatics would be fatal to our civilisation and race. Certain parts ~f the Empire niost_suif«l for Orient Is ard 4ea»t suited lor our habits mi-lit le specially reserved for Orienini immigration. "

"BABAROI'S AXI) CRUEL LAW.' PROTEST OF INDTAXS U\ I'HF RAXD. UNDULY STRAINING INDI W LOYALTY. PASSIVE RESISTKRS AKUESTKI). Received 29th, 4.30 p.m. Capetown, December 2S. Gandhi, an Indian Itarrister. addressing a maps meeting of Indians , m the Band, declared Lord Elgin's action in sanctioning the Immigration Act unduly strained Indian loyalty, for it was a barbarous and savage measire. although passed by an avowedly Christian Government. Gandhi ,-md eight compatriot.* were prosecuted for failing to register under the Act, and releasee! on parole. Many Indians were arrested el->u hen In the Transvaal.

RACE EIOT.S I.Y AMERICA. ORIENTAL QUARTERS WRKCKFD. Received 20th, i.r,r, pni.. New York, December AAvices from Portland. Oregon, staie that an erroneous report that n rililen had been murdered in a Chinese restaurant, led !500 inhabitants of r.ethbridge, in Alberta district, to wreck the Oriental quarters of the town The pone.? were powerless, bnf a bri gade of mounted police ultimately dispersed the rioters.