AFFAIRS OF INDIA.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20098, 29 November 1930, Page 15

AFFAIRS OF INDIA.

EXISTENCE OF BOMB CONSPIRACY. JUDGMENT OF SPECIAL TRIBUNAL. (UNITED TRESS ASSOCIATION —BI ELECTBIO TELEGRAPH—CO PTKIGHT.) (Received Xovember 28th, 11.30 p.m.) DELHI, November 28. The trial has concluded of ten prominent Bengalis, including tho wellknown Doctors N. Roy and B. Bose, who were charged with conspiracy to murder Europeans and police officers. Eight were convicted, Roy and Boso each receiving a sentence of twenty years' transportation, while the others received lesser sentences.

The special tribunal decided unanimously that the evidence proved beyond doubt the existence of a conspiracy with the declared object to manufacture bombs, to collect arms and ammunition, and that the deliberate purpose of these activities was the murder of Europeans and police officers. It found that the conspiracy had existed for some months and fhat it was responsible for several bomb outrages. CONFERENCE ON INDIA. ENLARGEMENT OF COMMITTEE. (BRITISH OrriCIAL WIRELESS.) RUGBY, November 27. The Federal Relations Committee ot tho Indian Round-Table Conference held a brief meeting this afternoon, when it was decided to co-opt all delegates to the Conference not previously on the Committee. This course was taken at the request of the British Indian delegation, to secure the representation of all interests on the Committee. Consequently, when the Committee meets tomorrow, it will constitute a committee of the whole Conference. It is expected 'that its first business will be to examine the heads of subjects for future discussion, as submitted by Lord Sankey (Lord Chancellor). DIFFICULTIES OF .THE TASK POINTED OUT. (BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.) RUGBY. November 27. Addressing the English-speaking Union at a luncheon, Sir John Simon (who was chairman of the Indian Statutory Commission) said that a detailed plan which faced an indisputable fact was nedeed in working out chances in the constitution of India, and not a general phrase. The immense area and population of India, the diversities of race, creed, and caste, the overwhelming predominance of the rural population, the high percentage of illiteracy, and the standing menace of tn© North-West Frontier were facts whicn must be provided for. He was persuaded that the ultimate form of the Indian constitution would not be a mere imitation of some existing scheme which had been worked out in perfectly different conditions in another • part ot the world, but one really suited to the special circumstances of the Indian case.