THE DAILY PROVINCE
MARCH 3, 1908

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WILL DEPORT FIFTEEN HINDUS
UNABLE TO PASS TEST
------------------Immediately Men Are Liberated by Dominion Province
Will Detain Them.

-------------ACTION EXPECTED TO-DAY.
--------------Attempt Will Be Made to Place Undesirable on Board
Steamer.

------------------THE Provincial Police authorities have been notified by the federal
immigration officials that fifteen, of the twenty Hindus who arrived yesterday
from the Orient, on board the steamship Empress of Japan, may be released at
any time this afternoon. Immediately the men are liberated by the Dominion
authorities they will be detained by the provincial officers because they all
failed last night to pass the tests called for by the provincial Natal Act.
The Hindus were detained by Dr. Monro pending a determination of the
point whether the order which they brought from the C. P. R. agent at Calcutta
to the agent of the company at Hongkong for a ticket from the latter point to
Vancouver was a fulfillment of the terms of the order in Council requiring
continuous passage of immigrants from country of birth or citizenship to
Canada. It is understood that Ottawa will hold that there has been no breach
of the order in Council in this instance.
Provincial Constable Monro is on guard at the federal detention shed
this afternoon and as soon as the Hindus are released he will corral every one
of them and make an effort to place them on board the Empress of Japan again
in order that they may be deported.