Fiji Indians' Appeal

To India A Strange Development That Is Loaded—Against Indians

T tt . . SUVA, Aug. 1.

HERE still is speculation here con cerning the origin and purpose of the move made by Fiji Indians, in seeking the intervention of the Common wealth Relations Department of the Indian Government in Fiji affairs, with a view (according to “the Civil and Military Gazette,” published in Lahore) to securing a better status and} living condition for the Fiji Indian population.

It is reported now that the Indian Government will send a “goodwill mis sion” to Fiji, to study the conditions of the Indian population.

Any such development will be very strongly resented by Fiji people, and by British Colonial Office interests generally.

If international opinion is in favour of the removal of the Jews from Palestine, and the British from India, and the Dutch from the East Indies, then a very strong case can be made out for the deportation of the Indians from Fiji, and the reservation of that fertile archipelago for the Fijians.