INDIAN COMMISSION

Evening Star, Issue 19783, 6 February 1928, Page 7

INDIAN COMMISSION

SIR JOHN SIMON’S MESSAGE REMOVING MISUNDERSTANDING ._ (British Official News.) Prew Awociation—By Wireless—Copyright. "RUGBY, February 5. (Received February 0, at noon.) Sir John Simon and the other members of the Statutory Commission arrived at Bombay yesterday. Sir John Simon issued a statement to the Press in the following terms: — “My, colleagues and 1 set foot in India fully impressed with the responsibility of our work, and with the resolve that all our energy and goodwill shall be given to its discharge. Constitutional progress in British India - essentially depends on friendly and the sincere co-operation of tho Indian and British representatives, but it is manifest that there exists at tho moment in some quarters a widespread misunderstanding as to what the Commission is setting out to do, and uncertainty respecting the methods it proposes to employ. *■ We shall make it our business without delay to remove those misapprehensions, and after reaching Delhi and becoming more acquainted with the actual situation, we intend to make a statement of the proposed procedure, which should leave no ground for the suspicions which have unfortunately arisen. We mean to take the fullest opportunity open to us for consultation with the Indian representatives who are willing to meet us both during our preliminary visit and when we return for our longer visit in October.”