MISCELLANEOUS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 May 1922, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS

AIT* llt A I.IAN AND N.Z. CAHLIS ASSOCIATION. ANOTHER .DANO Hit • * Received this day at 8.30 a.in.) LONDON. May 30. Another Anglo-Indian, in a letter to the Press deplores the fact tlnit Mrs Besant’s visit to Australia includes pushing a campaign for securing India’s freedom, independence, and self determination. He says Indians hn\e already all three to a greater extent / than the inhabitants of any other civilized country. Nowhere is such freedom from annoying restrictions. After weightily pressing the difficulties surrounding the ‘British ' administration, he says Australia is too young a country to understand the Indian questions , and adds that the bulk of the enor- j mons population of India. is content and lias no desire for ft change of rulers. No one knows better than Mrs Besant and her followers, that the mines they are so assiduously laying will, if exploded, load to such a botanist that Tndia. will ho thrown hack centuries, and those who suffer most will he the poor misguided illiterates, who never enjoyed such freedom, self determination and independence as untier British rule. j SOUTH WEST AFRICA TROUBLE. ' CAPETOWN, May 29. I In the assembly Mr Smuts stated the trouble in South West protectorate originated through Bondelzwnrd tribesmen refusing to extradite certain crimi- ; nas among them. He did not think j the matter very serious, but it might become* so, if a great concent ration of rebels occurred. i REBELS WIPED OUT. I DELHI, May 29. | Reports from Calicut state after eluding troops for months, Connarathaiignl. chief of the rebels, with about one hundred followers, looted Urungatti and marched to the village of Arikode, and challenged the troops to fight. Troops hurried from the neighbouring stations and surrounded and wiped out the rebels.