THE INDIAN UNREST

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 130, 4 June 1919, Page 7

THE INDIAN UNREST

TURKEY'S DEFEAT ONE OF THE -CAUSES

DANGER HAS NOT YET PASSED,

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COP-RIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 22nd May (delayed). Speaking in the ' House of Commons, Mr. E. S.. Montagu, Secretary of Start, for India, said that the internal danger in India was not yet past. Fighting had occurred in the Presidency of Bombay, involving one-tenth of tho area and one-third of the population. In the Punjab there had been an outbreak at Delhi. Trouble had occurred at Calcutta, also, but to a minor extent. There had been no trouble in Madras or in the Central or United Provinces. The trouble was wholly confined to the towns. Events had shown the unmistakable loyalty of India as a whole.' Altogether nine European and four'hundred Indian lives had been lost. The perplexity in the Mohammedan world, arising out of Turkey's defeat, was one of the causes of Indian unrest. Another arose from a fear that the promises of 1917 would not. be carried out. The Rowlatt Act was very unpopular, but would not be used except t_\ cope with remarkable revolutionary movements. Mr. Montagu said that he felt convinced that they must proceed without delay with the' Bill providing for the alteration of the Indian Government. Cabinet had agreed to the introduction of the Bill at the beginning of June. The keystone of the Indian reform would be the transference of power from the bureaucracy -to the people. "This may be gradual in its application," he added, "but it must be real."