IN INDIA

Hokitika Guardian, 8 July 1930, Page 5

IN INDIA

THE OFFICIAL REPORT.

OF PAST WEEK.

(Official Wireless.)

(Received this, day at 10.09 a.m.) RUGBY, July 7.

The weekly appreciation of the situation compiled by the Government of India, and circulated to members of Parliament, dcscrites as the chief event of the week in India the de-

claration of the All India Congress Working Committee to be an unlawful association under the Criminal Law Amendment Act. The committee consists at full strength of about fifteen persons who for a considerable period have been playing a prominent part in tlie organising and • direction of tlio.- civil disobedience movement. Not only had they urged the public to defy, the law and refuse payment of taxes, but they had circulated incitement to troops and police to fail in their duty in dealing with civil disobedience movement.

Simultaneously, the committee president, Pandit Nehru and the secretary were arrested and sentenced to six months simple imprisonment each. Hartals in various towns followed, but many of them were' incomplete and there had been no clashes with the authorities.

Popular demonstrations had been most marked in Bombay city where conditions continue unsatisfactory, In spite of the activities of the Congress the situation shows distinct signs of improvement in several directions. The position on the frontier is rapidly returning to normal. In parts of Gujorat there are indications that the ( movement is losing some of its vigor and most of the provinces report a slackening of the efforts.

The conviction is growing that the, civil disobedience movement cannot succeed and commercial and industrial circles are /showing increasing concern regarding the consequences of its continuance.

There is an increase in constructive effort towards a constitutional solution of the political problems and Mobammedanis in particular are devoting much attention to the presentation of their case, at the London Conference. While the situation has still riiany unstable elements these are not so numerous or so pronounc-ed-as a few weeks ago.