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RAND ASIATICS -
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PROTEST BY INDIANS.
, LONDON, August 14.
?The Indians on the Rand take stronv
exception to the proposal of the Trans
vaal Government to legalise the sta'tus
of those Asiatics who voluntarily re
gistered before May 10, or obtained cer
tificates of registration under the Asi
atic 'Act of 1907, trading licences being
restricted ;to Asiatics thus qualified.
'They declare that the bill is a breacb
of1 the compromise 'arranged in January
last, when- Mr. Smuts, the Transvaal
State Secretary, accepted the assur
ances of the Asiatic leaders that they
would make the system of voluntary
registration effective, the sentences
being remitted, and the finger-print
system of identification dispensed with
in the cases of educated men and pro
perty-owners.
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