DEPORTEES' WELCOME

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 741, 14 February 1910, Page 5

DEPORTEES' WELCOME

leeleask; '{■■': the i "improved; condition": 03? • , : ; :;;'V : ,'■:; '; By, Teleeranh—Press Association—Copyright. :':•■.! .''.•'• ;';''-London, Februaryll. " - Editor's '■■ Calcutta' agent; reports ■ that ' the': Government of India.is entirely re- ■ sponsible, 1 for 'the release .of the ' de-: .: ported'prisoners.! The'dcpision was partly - ( bw'iug,'tp,tho'native' coirimunity'B ! proof ofßoyalty. assistfn'B,'in this. '• passing-of .'the. Press' Act,. and • partly : to the' improved 'condition of the cburi'try;'\'.-,'■•■'.' <' :; --.v'.- ■::■.''■ ''v,.y. : .-'; •.•■'. ;';''\";V': -Calcutta/iPebmary ,11.' .Some •' of.' the prisoners, .deported,; last • year for political offences, have .been released,: and have 'arrived at' Calcutta.- •. . .They! were received, by - : .,a ■; procession singing .' ex tremist • songs, •:.and:, shouting .''Bande Matara'ml"; :■ ~-'.-', :., /v. i Tho:;men. repatriated included -:Mitter, editor of the /'Sanja .Bhani)" wh'o '; was welcomed by;Arabindo Ghose; the leader' , of : the' National .party. ,-;' ,y'::. : ■'.-;-. ';■/':;;..1-'.: '■. v PRESS BILL.;'.-.;■-:.;.,-'A'MAHAEAJAH ON:SOCIAnSMiIN : . ', ;-;- ; ; '•';...,, ;-;ENGLAND..';: : .V y.;':.' :,/, '.' v / London,: February, 11. <•'■ ■■During the debate■ on thb: Press Bill; in: the Legislative.: Council; ' the./ Maha--.', rajah, of :.:Burdwan' declared ;' that-. eduoatedvminds in-India: were perplexed by the', 'adoption., of ' measures', against sedi- : tion,' there,!'-'when',; members of tho tish ;'House of:' Commons; and the Leader of -the.Labour-party .were allowedtd say-that-tlie; time, had come.for 'the- Crown', to.go ..into, the, melting-pot.';. The Maharajah insisted- that Socialism -ought! not to.be' allowed, to enter. India.'.; - ■•' .■; Ah attempt to" -make l the-' Bill operative .for 'only three 'years was ', defeated by..42. -votes to; 16. - V. : ,; ;^ '-,; ■;■'-,;'.■ /-.' '',-, lord; morley on: deportations. :'• The,.deportations which hdvo teen the subject of ,80 imuch, discussion, resulting at. last-in- the'.release of, the, deportees, wero made -under an Indian Regulation adopted in 1818.-. In a speech last year the-Secretary .for .; India, Lord 'lloiley, thus dofended the use of,this regulation: ,'■ "On, December li),,l!108, nine Indians Were arrested under a certain'.lndian regulation of the. year 1818, and they, who reproach... us with' violating '(215, which is Magna. .Chart!,, and the Petition of Eights, complain that 1813 is "far: too' remote, for.us,,to,be' litl'all affected by anything that was then made law. Now what is ..the regulation?; :•' The. regulation of 1818 'says:: -Seasons' of State .occasionally.' rende:-': itincdeHsary :tc place , under personal; :restraint/..individuals ".against whom there-may not bo sufficient 'grounds ,to institute any judicial proceedings, and the Governor-General in. Council is ablo for. good and sufficient reasons to determine- that: ,A. : B. shall be placed under personal. restraint.' There '6 no trial; i there is'no.chorge/Vthere'is no fixed limit of time qf detention; and, in .short, it; is equivalent,. no doubt," to a suspension of habeas corpus..' That is.a broad statement, but substantially that is what it'is. 1 ; "Is there ;'.to be, no, such thing ..as an emergency power? ,My viow is'.that tho. powers-given-under the regalation of 1818 do constitute an emergency power, which may be,.lawfully, applied -if, there be>n emergency.:. Was Hier-j an emergency last December? t will tell you. : The: Government of India'found in December a movement, which was n; grave menace . to the ;vorv foundation!- of, public peace and security.. -The list of crimes for ■'• twelve months .was . formidable,; slowing tho determined-and during, character of the supporters' of this' movement. Tho criircs.were riot nil. Terrorism prevented evidence. Tho ordinary process of law. was no. longer iidcqimte, and the impression in (his community, in which'you are all going to take your port,,..was that tho govornnient'riouM be ifefied with impunity." ,''".-.