INDIAN POLICY.
A FRIENDLY WARNING TO
MOSLEMS.
INDIAN IMMIGRANTS TO THE WHITE DOMINIONS.
SPEECH BY THE VICEROY.
By Telegraph—Press Association-OopyTlffht (Rec. September 18, 11.10 p.m.) Simla, September 18. When adjourning the Legislative Coitncil, Lord Hardinge, Viceroy of India, delivored an important. review of Indian policy. He emphasised the importance of the existence of Turkey as an independent Power, and would add a worcf of friendly warning to the Moslem community in India. They nmst not, lib said, give am unreasonable interpretation to the idea of Islamio solidarity.
Alluding to tho positioni.of Indians in the self-governing colonics, Lord Hardinge said that while the colonial Governments wero extremely sensitive on this question, the Indian Government fully recognised its responsibilities and spared no efforts to protect tlio interests of its fellow Indian subjects, and would continue to urgo their views until redress was obtained. He laid special stress upon the right of entry into Canada of the wives and children of Indians who had acquired Canadian domicile rights, and hoped that tlio defects of the South African Immigration Bill would bo remedied. Lord l Hardinge regretted the appalling increase of lawlessness in the Northern and Western districts of the Punjab, audi the dacoit crimes in Eastern Bengal. Ho concluded by justifying the heavy expenditure incurred in higher education in India.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19130919.2.70
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1859, 19 September 1913, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
217INDIAN POLICY. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1859, 19 September 1913, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.