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 wisely accepts the principle of a commission on a matter that is self evident, but equally wisely wants a commission that would not prove abortive and that will dare to bel! the ruling race in South Africa that, aa mem- bers in an Empire which has more coloured people than white, they may not treat their Indian fellow-subjects as helots. Whether the above proposal is accepted or some other is adopted by the Imperial Government, it must be made clear to them thab public opinion in India will nob tolerate confiscation of the primary rights of the British Indian settlers in South Africa,

��INDIAN BIGHTS IN THE TRANSVAAL

From time to time trouble rose in Transvaal betioeen the trading people among European colonists and Indians. A policy of squeezing out the Indian petty trader was prevalent throughout the colony A correspondent of the Times of India wrote to its columns in August 18, 7,97.9, that South Africa cannot be run economically with the Indian in it and the white people cannot be expected to commit race suicide. Strangely enough even the Smutts- Gandhi agreement was pressed into issue. Mr, Gandhi wrote to "The Times of India 1 ' :

No possible exception can be takan to the impartial manner in which your South African correspondent has given a summary of the Indian position in the Trans- vaal in your issue of the 18th instant, He has put as fairly as it was possible for him f.o do, both sides of the question,

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