PROBLEM OF INDIA

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20177, 4 March 1931, Page 9

PROBLEM OF INDIA

.VICEBOY-GANDHI JNTEBVIEWS. EARLY agreement hoped foe. (UNITED PBE33 ASSOCIATION—By BLECTBIC TELEGBAJH—COPVBIOnT.) (Received March 3rd, 11.15 p.m.) CALCUTTA, March 2. Following further long discussions between, the Viceroy 'Gandhi, there is a new feeling of optimism over the prospects of an early agreement. They will meet again to-day, when it is thought that a final ,&nd favourable decision may be reached. Gandhi is chiefly pressing for in the salt laws. DISMISSAL OF EMPLOYEES. CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE CAMPAIGN. (Roceived March 3rd, 11.15 p.m.) ' CALCUTTA,.March 2. It is now revealed that 74,000 jute mill labourers have been dismissed from mills in the vicinity of Calcutta during the past week. The railways are* also dismissing hands on account of the civil disobedience campaign, and stagnation of trade. . ROUND-TABLE CONFERENCE GOVERNMENT'S PLANS NOT YET STATED. (BBITISB OmciAL wiejuhss.) RUGBY, March 2. In the House of Commons, the Secretary for India, Mr Wedgwood Benn, in reply to questions .regarding the result of the discussions between the Viceroy and Gandhi, replied that as the conversations were still proceeding, he was unable. to make a statement. 11l reply to another question, he said that he was. still unable to.' make a statement on the Government's plans for carrying on the work of the RoundTable Conference. Asked if it was intended that the proposals discussed at the Round-Table Conference not requiring an amendment of the Government of India Act should be proceeded with, Mr Benn said that the Government of India had announced that a committee would be set up at an early date. He added that there might bo other administrative action which could be taken, and sympathetic consideration' would be given to such ft possibility, but he would take every means of informing the House of Commons of anything it intended to do.