INDIAN UNREST

Hokitika Guardian, 3 April 1922, Page 3

INDIAN UNREST

tUSTRALIAN ANL N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

INDIAN PRESS CENSORSHIP. DELHI, March 31. A certain amount of opposition from influential Indians, who are convinced the country is not sufficiently settled for such a measure, the Indian Legislative Assembly has passed a Bill repealing the Press Act, and the Newspaper Incitement to Offences Act. Tlie most remarkable thing in the debate was the attack made by Razi Ali on the .journalists in India. He bitterly complained against sensational items "being sent from India to tbe English Press by adventurous corres- j .pondents, who claimed to know more j of India than the Government and the ! legislature did. He did not ask the Government to institute a censorship but he thought the Telegraph Act I ought to he revised so as to prevent any Press correspondent from dictat- ! ing to India. This member added that, so far India h»d been ruled in the name of the King, by Parliament on the one hand, and by the Govern- ' inent of India on the other; but there j had arisen another class, the Press j correspondents, whose writings caused incalculable damage to the interests of the country. He further protested against what he described as the infamous action of the people who are using disreputable methods in trying ' to prejudice India’s cause before the British public and to keep India in perpetual bondage. The Viceroy prorogued both Legislatures.