The Congress of the Cape British Indian Council was held in the City Hall to ask Government to consider sympathetically questions concerning the citizenship of Indians, their marriages and immigration. Mr. Merriman opened the Congress with a brilliant speech in which he described how all classes in India were doing their duty in supporting the Empire. Britain’s name in the world would as time advanced, depend upon how she ruled India, but possibly the time was not yet ripe for great changes. He urged Indians in South Africa to ask for redress of their grievances in a moderate constitutional way and make the Union Government’s burden as light as possible, then Government would not turn a deaf ear. The Delegates passed a Resolution in favour of moderation.
