INDIAN UNREST

Hokitika Guardian, 30 December 1921, Page 3

INDIAN UNREST

AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. INDIAX RESOLVES. (Received This Day at 5.30 a.m.) DELHI. Decembdr 28. Ahmcdnbad Congress carried, in committee. a resolution favouring .non-viol-ence, and stating that civic disobedience was the only civilised effective substitute for tinned rebellion, and in order to concentrate attention thereon ail other activities should be suspended. The resolution urges the organisation of public meeting throughout tiie country not withstanding the prohibition thereof, and appeals to all to offer themselves quietly for arrest, by becoming volunteers. The resolution appoints Gandhi as the sole executive authority and invests him, and in view of the possibility of his arrests Ids successors, with full power over the Congress organisation, with a proviso that Gandhi, or his successor are not

authorised to conclude any terms of peace, with the Rai or British Government without the previous sanction of Congress. After hearing lengthy statements by Pundit. Malauya. and Gandhi, the Congress followed the latter’s advice by Mala viva, that the resolution he considered so as to delete the portion advising aggressive civic disobedience, to delete to submit to open congress a resolution expressing a desire for a round table Conference on reasonable honourable terms. Gandhi pointed out, however, that the rejection did not preclude a working Committee or Congress Committee agreeing later to a conference, hut it would lie undignified to pass the resolution suggested. Gandhi declared there was nothing in the ViceRegal pronouncements to show a change of heart which was so necessary for the success of a conference..