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 tion alters when the Government steps in and gives legal recognition to the Anti-Colour Campaign. It* is impos- sible for the Indian settlers to submit to an insulting restraint upon their oaovenaontis They will not allow booking clerks to decide as to whether they ara becom- ingly dressed. They cannot allow a pU'form-mspeotor to restrict them to a reserved part of a platform. They will not, as if they were tackes oMaave men, produce their oertifijates m order to secure railway tickets.

The pendency of the war cannot be used as an effective shield bo cover fresh wrong8 and lusuhs. The plucky custodians of India's honour are doing their share in South Africa. We here are bound to help them. Meetings throughout; ludia should inform the white inhabitants of S^ush Africa that; India resents their treatment of her sons, Taey should call ui,on the Government of India and the Imperial Government to Booure effective protection for our countrymen in South Africa, I hope that Englishmen in India will not be behind hand in lending their valuable support; to the uoovemeQu to redress the wrong. Mr. Caohalia's oable is silent) on the grievance disclosed in the second batch of extracts. It is not less serious. In its effect* it is far more deadly. Bat the community is hoping to right the wrong by an appeal to the highest legal tribunal in the Union. Bufe really the question is above that tribunal, me state it in A sentence. A reactionary Attorney- has obtained a ruling from the Natal Supreme Court to the effect that subjects of ( native states ' are aliens and not British subjects and are, therefore, nob entitled to its protection so far as appeals under a parti- cular section of the Immigrants Restriction Act are- concerned. Thus if tho local courts' ruling is correct,

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