INDIAN UNREST.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2077, 11 May 1907, Page 1

INDIAN UNREST.

Press Association. —Copyright. LONDON, May 9.' Mr. Morley, in reply to Mr. Balfour, said the Government of India, in response to the application of Sir D. O. J. Ibbotson, Governor of the Punjaub, has issued a warrant for the arrest and deportation to another province of two very prominent agitators. Itomesh Cliunder Dutt, lecturer on Indian history at the University College of London, in a letter to a Bombay newspaper, attributes the unrest to a belief preyaleut among the ignorant classes that the Government were ready to support Mohammedans against the Hindus, lie urges the .Government to take the most vigorous action in considering the situation. The Daily Telegraph's eorresponj.!ent at Allahabad says tlife aim of the Hindu agitators is to create a panic in England, with a view to extorting concessions in the matter of government. MELBOURNE, May 10. Sir David Masson, a member for the Punjaub Legislative Council- has airived on a visit. Interviewed regarding the disturbances at Rawalpindi and Lahore, he said that for years past the Government had been

in the habit of rewarding the best educated Indians with an office of sdmo sort. This had caused every educated Indian to become an officeseeker, always postering people with in/luenco to use it on their behalf. Tlioso who fail to get office start agitations. “Another cause of tho disturbances,” said Sir D. Masson, "is the methods of self-advertisement adopted by ploadors. The average Indian is never happier that when deep in a lawsuit, and pleaders are always seeking to advertise themselves. If they can find a grievance of some sort they hurry out and harangue tho mob. Tho particular griovaneo seized on by tho pleaders of tho Punjaub is ono arising out of tho Bill wo passed hist session. We have an enormous number of irrigation canals there, and it was the Canal Colony Bill which rearranged the allotment of land on these canals. Tho thing had to bo done. It caused some discontent, and the pleaders, seeing an excellent opportunity to boom themselves, have taken this as their text, and endeavor to inflame the pooplo.”