THE DAILY PROVINCE
FEBRUARY 11, 1914

HINDU PROBLEM IS TOO COMPLEX
------------------British Ambassador at Washington Refers
Delegates to Foreign Office.

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Washington, Feb. 11.—Questions involved in the regulations of Hindu
emigration are too grave to permit of any attempt being made to adjust them
through the agency of the British embassy in Washington. This was the
substance of a reply made yesterday by Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the British
ambassador, to a delegation of East Indians who called on him to solicit his
good offices in preventing the enactment of Asiatic exclusion legislation by the
United States Congress.
The delegation was composted of Sudhindra Boss of Calcutta, at present
attached to the Iowa State University faculty, and Dr. Bishen Singh of the
Punjab. They said they realized the force of public opinion in favor of some
restriction upon immigration into the United States of Asiatics and were
willing that this should take the form of such a limitation upon the issue of
passports as is practiced by the Japanese Government.
The ambassador told the delegation that owing to the complexity of the
problems involved, including immigration legislation by some of the British
colonies, the subject was one that could be dealt with only by the British
foreign office.