UNREST IN INDIA

Hokitika Guardian, 20 January 1932, Page 5

UNREST IN INDIA

TRIAL OF MISSIONARY. TWO OTP woo -o LEAVE COUNTRY, ; I: I (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) DELHI, January 19. Rev. Doctor Erneslt Forerster Paton, Scottish Missionary, , stationed at Turrappatur, was charged before «n Indian Judge at Madras with picketing shops .that were selling British, goods. Rev. D. Paten is a brother-n----law to Air Miller, the member of the British House of Commons for East Fife. Dr. Paton claimed trial as a British subject. Hit-: case was adjourned. A sympathetic attitude on the pant of other missionaries is being shown towards the Congress Movement, they exercising official circles. Rev. G. B. Halstead, an American Mit-sioner, and Social Director of the Lucknow Christian College, has been requested to leave the country, owing to his political activities. Father Elliven, also nil American, who is a personal friend of Mr Gandhi, has been deported from the NorthwestFrontier province,

SITUATION QUIETING

RE-ASSURING REPORTS

RUGBY, jjanuary 18. Reports concerning the second week’* operation of the special Government measures in India, are reassuring. J, n most provinces, notably Madras, Punjab and Bihar and Orissa, Bengal, Central Provinces and Assam, there has been little activity, and apart from the nortwest province, there is a general absence of trouble in the rural /area s. The situation in Bombay City is well under control. In the United Provinces, the failure of the no-rent campaign has been a significant feature, and in the large towns of the province.-:, there is n definite tendency for disturbances to settle down. In the north-west province, although many arrests are still necessary, and disaffection tends <to revive in some centres, the general tmp ro veme n t cop ti n ues. In Bombay Presidency, the positiongenerally is quiet. The arrest of lead- 1 ing agitators and the seizure of notified place* continue. A considerable number of those arrested have' 1 since been released, in several cases 1 disclaime r or apologies have beem accepted by the district magistrates. The occasional hartals received com- | parafeively little support. | Reports state that the removal of the principal agitators had a salutary effect everywhere. Til the United Provinces, order* have been generally obeyed. Allahabad is still the worst centre of activity in the province, although no further serious clash between the police and processions occurred. In Bengal, the situation rs generally quiet, anil the anf i-Govorn-meiiL movement has lint gained momentum.

A decrease in important crime, compared with the previous week is recorded in Burma, where siiiTemlerr, continue, particluarl.v in the Promo dj.ol riel.