JOURNALISTS IN INDIA.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17420, 3 April 1922, Page 7

JOURNALISTS IN INDIA.

NATIVE LEGISLATOR'S ATTACK. (By Cable—Press Association.—Copyright) Cku&tralian and N.Z. Cable Association.) ' DELHI, March 31. In spite of a certain amount of opposition from influential Indians, who ate convinced that the country is not sufficiently settled for such a measure,'tue Legislative Assembly passed the Bill repealing ihe Press Act and the Nevapaper Incitement to Offences Act. The nio.st remarkable thing in the debate was an attack by llazi Ali on journalists ir. India. He made a bitter complaint about sensational items being sent front India to the English press by niventurous correspondent: who claimed to know mote of India than the Government and the Legislature. He <niiot ask the G( veroment to institute a censorship, hut- said he thought the Telegraph Act ought to be revised so as to prevent puss dierating to India. The member added that so far Jndia was ruled iu. the name of the King by on one hand and by the Government of India on the other; but there had irisen another class, the press correspondents, whose writings had caused incalculable damage to the interests of the country. He further protested against what he described athe "infamous action" of people who used disreputable methods' in trying to prejudice India's came before the British public, and to keep India in perpetual bondage

The V.'ceriiry has prorogued both Houses of the Legislature.