INDIAN PROBLEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 May 1930, Page 6

INDIAN PROBLEMS

(British Official! Wireless)

RUGBY, May 12

Captain Wedge wood Benn circulated to members of Parliament a telegram from the Indian Government stating the internal salt campaign has now- - been definitely abandoned in some province® and elsewhere and continued ; except perhaps in the Bombay presidency only in. a desultory manner. The results pn the Government revenue lias been negligible as was anticipated. Efforts are being made to strengthen, the boycott of the liquor shops and foreign goods, espem [ally cloth. The hollowness of the claiming that the movement was nonviolent was becoming increasingly apparent. The military authorities bad given most valuable assistance throughout and the spirit -shown by the troops and the police has been excellent.

The civil disobedience movement obtained little success in the rural areas. Labour as a whole had remained comparatively unaffected and the general situation at present is well under control. Captain Wedge wood Benn in .a supplementing- statement in -t-h-e,-Com,-mpnis •' mentioned on Saturday Haji off; Turanzai .and,Jus followers,,,- who sojme • weeks 'ago approached within . ■nib-out twenty, miles of Peshawajp, .and constituted a menace to public order, were warned to depart. This warning: they- met; by .jbloeking the high road - with , felled:. trees. Accordingly tv raid on,: them .was. carried out by the aircraft yesterday. - The results. Were, not known. r -!:c m > ■

The. Commjandeivn-Chief in India had- authorised l :hiimrto say that*!the Indian, Army 'wak'! ctotnpletely ' loyal. The India Office also issues a sta-te-in)Mit by the Viceroy, published in India to-day stating owing _to Ghandi’s rejection, of the offer of a .conference following the consideration of the reports the statutory Icommission and the Indian central committee between interested parties to consider the Indian problems, the Government has been compelled to arm them selves, .arid,, pirovide-iq such farther vfeaponsrmswjudged rueoesfigrjf to . restore,-■ in■.-the neyes!-of- the .world, the good iiameofixlndia • fdu j isapijty ( ’and■lnspect-.for iconskitiited authority.; ; Ho Added steps- werd i being taken-iiS) ili-raiigd'- an- asseihibljhfL in Londofry of a representation odf mil ; inteitestsjqtitqf Ifm fere nee ‘there ; about the 20th of Octoiber next. Its actual opening would follow immediately’ion the: cojW c! usion of the Imperial; . Conference.,, He recognised that. u-tiopiresento there. Was a- widespread• .desire throughout Ifidia to see real apolitical i tadvance-. ment. R’"-