CLOUDS CLEARING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 126, 1 May 1925, Page 5

CLOUDS CLEARING.

BETTER DAYS COMING IN INDIA. REMARKABLE SPEECHES. CALCUTTA, April 17. The movement towards better things in India was considerably strengthened last night by -speeches by Madan Mohan Molaviya and Lala Lajpat Rai, two lieutenants of C. R. Dos, tho Nationalist leader. Thd v former urged the promotion of brotherly friendliness among all sections of the community, while tho latter paid a tribute to Britishers and all things British. Replying to a civio welcome extended by the Corporation of Calcutta, Malayiya, in the course of a striking speech, said the work of the self-government of the Empire would be judged by the self-government of Calcutta and the measure of harmony whioh now prevailed among all classes. In that city’s welcome was an augury for the future development of self-government in India. , “I feel that no higher duty devolves on Indians,’’ ho said, “than the promoting of a feeling of confidence and real brotherly friendliness among all sections, whether they be Indians or only sojourners in the land for the purposes of trade..” Lajpat Rai expressed tho greatest admiration for tho great qualities of Britishers and the purity of public life in Britain, adding: ‘We have yet a great deal to learn from them.’’ These sentments, from leaders who only a year or two ago were the bitterest opponents of British rule, well indicate the trend of events at the moment in India. Indoed, in the course of a few months prospects have turned from the blackness of despair to bright hopes for the future.