INDIAN UNREST.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1922, Page 2

INDIAN UNREST.

»USI a A 1.1 AN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. CO URTMARTTAL SENTENCES DELHI, March 8. Seventeen Moplahs were sentenced by martial law to be hanged at Coimbatore making tlie third batch from that town. It is officially stated the political situation in United- Provinces is rapidly deteriorating. The slightest provocation might bring an outbreak. Over two thousand demobilised soldiers al‘e being enlisted as exna police for six months,

INDIA’S REQUEST,

FOR NEAR EAST SETTLEMENT,

(Received This Day at 8 a.rii.j LONDON, March 8

Tlie papers comment at length on the Government of India’s despatch, appealing for a revision of the Sevres Treaty, or the evacuation of Constantinople uid suzerainty of the Sultan over the icly places of Islam and restoration of Itioman Thrace.

The “Daily Chronicle” points out though the Indian Government has been urging thte necessity of the Near Eastern settlement for the last three years, this is the first occasion that a specific demand has been made. The demands exceed the Turkish expectations and go further than the authors realise. The grant of Adrianople and Thrace to the Turks would give Turkey and Bulgaria a common frontier and Jugoslavia, Greece and Rumania would at once become alarmed. The restoration of the Sultan’s suzerainty over the holy places, namely Adrianople, Jerusalem, Medina, and Kerhla, would mean-the undoing of the whole of - the Near Eastern settlement and the abolition of the Arab kingdoms of Irak, Hedjaz, and the abandonment of Ihe British mandate over Palestine.

A RESIGNATION. LONDON, March 9. Hon. E. S. Montagu has resigned the Secretaryship of India.

REFERENCE IN COMMONS. (Received This Dav at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, March 9. Hon. Chamberlain, referring in the Commons to the publication of the Indian Government's telegram appealing for a revision of Sevres Treaty said it was publishd by the Government of India with the sanction of Hon Montaku, but no other Minister was consulted. Mr Chamberlain desired.to abstain front comment on the telegram, although its terms exceeded those de manded by the Turks warmest friends. This was a matter for discussion at the Conference in Paris.

CHAMBERLAIN’S REBUKING REPLY. {Received This Day at 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, March 9. Hon Chamberlain stated that Government were unable to reconcile the .publication of the telegram on sole responsibility of. Hon Montague, with the collective responsibility of the Cabinet, or with the duty which all Governments of the Empire owed each other in matters of Imperial concern. Such, independent declarations destroyed the unity of policy, which it was vital to < preserve in foreign affairs, and gravely imperilled the success of pending negotiations.