RIGHTS OF INDIANS.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 May 1921, Page 5

RIGHTS OF INDIANS.

MIGRATION WITHIN EMPIRE. FREE MOVEMENT SOUGHT. By Telegraph.—Press Assn—Copyright. London, May 26, The Australian Press Association representative had an interview with Mr. Sastri, the Indian representative at the Imperial Conference, who intends to insist that the conference shall deal with Indian Migration problems within the Empire. “Indians.” he said, “demand the same rights of full citizenship in any part of the British Dominions which India accords immigrants into India from any part of the Empire, and demand the right to go anywhere, in any numbers, within the Empire, together with the right to carry on business or profession without more restraint than Britishers.

“On the other hand Inda recognises the full rights of Dominions possessing autonomous Governments to regulate, restrict or even prohibit immigration from anywhere, whether Indian or foreign, which they conceive would be calculated to reduce the' standard of comfort or dominate or possibly imperil civilisation.” Mr. iSastri recognises that the two principles are irreconcilable if pushed to an extreme, therefore he proposes a round-table conference, comprising British, Australian, New Zealand, Canadian, South African and Indian representatives, for the purpose of devising a scheme for mutual co-operation and regulation of inter-imperial migration.