THE ASIATIC PROBLEM.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 307, 2 January 1908, Page 2

THE ASIATIC PROBLEM.

; Received 31st, 9.28 p.m. Capetown, December 31. The Indians' eounsel declare that the Transvaal is only empowered to send the Indians to the border, not to place them over the border. Indians in Durban have appealed to the delegates at the Surat Congress to ra(se a vigorous iprotost 'throughout India. They declare that the Indians in South Africa are. helpless. Received Ist, 11.11 p.m. Pretoria, January 1. The Transvaal government ia arranging a deputation to the Indians, via Natal. < London, January 1. Sir Bradford Leslie, an Indian engineer, advises Sir John Morley to ask" the New South Wales Government for Dr Ashburton Thompson to visit India in connection with the plague. lionibay, January 1. The Parsccs of Bombay have ' independently approached Sir Sydenham Clarke with the same object. It is understood that Dr Thompson does not consider a flying visit would accomplish more than could b e done by wide dissemination in India of his recent paper read before the Boya] Society of Medicine which has already been arranged, i » .' s {flfef Medical Officer of the N.S.W. Government, and has contributed largely to scientific literature concerning the plague.] -• ■ 1 ■ ,