The Archive · 1906

Coolies on the Rand

London vid Bombay, 9th June, In the course of a debate in the House of Commons, Mr. Winston Churchill admitted that the fact that there were only twelve applicants for repatriation showed no general desire of the Chinese on the Rand to return, but that did a justify the perpetuation of. the Later.

Mr. Churchill's speech was in connection with the Colonial Office vote, on a Labourite motion to Gazette 603 reduce Lord Elgin's salary, which was talked out. If a division had been taken, the Government majority would probably have sunk to the lowest figures owing to the indignation of the Radicals over the Government's Chinese Labour

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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