INDIA.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 55, 28 November 1907, Page 5

INDIA.

RAILWAY TROUBLE SUBSIDES AGAIN,

KEIR HARDIE'S STOEY. PITIABLE STATE OF PEASANTS. DT TELEQnAriI—riJESS ; ASSOCIATION—COPTBIOHT. Bombay, November 26. The llcngal-Nagpur railway moil have resumed work, Fremantle,; November 27. Mr. Keir Hardie,. British Labour M.P., was welcomed by Labour • representatives.' Referring to his call at Government House in Ceylon, ho states that ho simply called and loft his card, as other people do. Reverting to India, ho said the peasants aro in the last stage of poverty. For tlio last ten years famino and plague have boon with them nearly all the time, and in consequence their stamina is gone; they have no resources to fall bn.ck upon, and, generally speaking, their lot is deplorablo. ' 13ETTER NEWS. (Rec. Nov. 27, 9.16 p.m.) Bombay, November 27. Good rains have fallen iii Southern India. Writing to the local governments concerning the plague, the Viceroy of,lndia (Lord Minto), after an expression of his sorrow and concern for. its ravages, and the little success attending the efforts to eradicate the scourgo, points out that the difficulties are enormous, and that the greatest is the inability of the people to understand the sanitary and hygienic measures taker) by the Government, which they have actively resented. The first stage of the Plague Commission of Inquiry, continues the Viceroy, has beon finished, proving that certain expensive and harassing operations can be safely abandoned... "The. leading principle of the plague campaigns," the letter continues, "is that the people must wotk\out their own salvation. The problem is orie of exceptional difficulty. We cannot insist unreasonably upon the acceptance of our idea,s of-modern hygiene." Mr., lveir Hardie's reference to his visit to Government House, Ceylon, bears on an allegation contained' in a previous cablegram, which stated that the Governor, Sir Henry M'Callum, wis "too busy to receive" Mr. Ilardic.