INDIA AND THE PEACE TREATY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 293, 6 September 1919, Page 7

INDIA AND THE PEACE TREATY

i . MOSLEM ANXIETY i SPEECH BY THE VICEROY t By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright Simla, September Lord Chelmsford, in opening the Legis- ■ In live Council, said that the final deci- !' sion as lo tho-Turkish Peace Terms was i awaited wi'.li keen concern by tho Mos- _ lem fellow-subjects in India. The views of tho. latter had been placed with strong emphasis before the Imperial Govern- ■ mcnt. Referring to the grave events ; which had recently disturbed India, ho nil id no (iovernmcnt could deviate from the policy which was regarded as essen- ! tial.. .because threats of prompt mcasures had duelled the disorders. [ Dealimr with the Pence Treaty with Afghanistan, lie said India had 110 de- , mi:;i on Afghanistan, and would give her . friendship with pleasure if Afghanistan ; proved worthy of it; but India would j not. force herself upon lier. He paid a . tribute to '.lie troops engaged in the Mesoiwtnmian and Afglian campaigns, f The Viceroy foreshadowed measures to , establish the stability of the rupee, and ! to dual with labour; commercial matters, , and industrial and educational develop- ' went'.—Renter. THE OPPOSITION. TO POLITICAL REFORM PROMINENT HINDU'S VIEWS. (Rec. September 5, 11.5 p.m.) i Nsw York, September 4. Sir.Vithaldas Damodher Thackersey, a j wealthy Hindu cotton magnate and at present a representative of India en route Ito London' ior an Imperial Conference, stated .in an interview that there, was no Nationalist, movement in India. "It is not tho fault of British 'statesmen that India is -unable to obtain a political reform which will make possible a wide educational system.The British commercial classes ill. India strongly oppose political reform."—Aus.NX Cable Assn.