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226 INDIAN OPINION September 4th, 1925
was very indistinctly heard, was understood to say
that as an appeal by the Indian gaoler was pending
It would be undesirable to enter mto any dl8cussion
• of the details of the evidence produced in the case
or of the inferences whlCh might be drawr. from
them. It was ObVIOUS that the findmgs of tb.e Court
were disquieting, and, whether or nol they were
materially modified as a result of the appeal, it was
clear that the matter reqUIred, and would certainly
have, thelcJosest conslderatior. by the local Government,
the Government of India, and the Secretary of
State in Council. .
The motion was by leave Withdrawn.
CONGRESS PRESIDENT'S SPEECH
The fol\owing is the full text of the Pre:mlent's
speech read at the Town I-hll meeting last Mond,LY
lllght,-
Friends antI FeUow-Conntrymen,-We are assembled
here to-night in our thousands as a first
step to protest against the Areas Reserva.tion and
Immigration and Registration (Further Provision)
Bill popularly known as the AsiatIc Bill which is
now before the Union Pa.rliament of South Africa.
• It is a matter for great concern to us that a
responsIble Minister of the Government has deemed
it proper to refer to us as aliens and he said so
becau~1'l there were many characteristics in which we
differ from members of hiS race. For this reason
he stateI'; that the Bill under conSideration IS necessa.ry
His argument is both illogical and contrcl.uictory
because he exempts the Mauritiau Creole8, St.
Helenas, the Cape Coloureds, the Ca.pe M