THE UNREST IN INDIA.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8813, 15 May 1907, Page 2

THE UNREST IN INDIA.

Press Association—Copyright. London, May 14.

Mr Morley. replying to Dr Rutherford and Mr O’Grady, said nobody disliked extreme measures such as deportation more than he, but they must be decided by emergency and risk. Government were determined not to strip the Viceroy o£ any weapon the law placed in his hands for the suppression of native disorders. Nobody was so interested in prompt suppression as the Indian party, representing causes with which his honorable friends had such sympathy. Mr W. Redmond protested against coercion as being as useless in India as in Ireland.

Firm Action by Government. Mr Morley, iu reply to Mr Balfour, said the measures taken iu the Punjab sufficed for the maintenance of tranquility. The situation in Eastern Bengal was strained and Hindoo agitators were violently attempting to compel Maliommedaus to abstain from purchasing goods iu the markets. Groat unrest continues, hence a new ordinance has been promulgated regulating public meetings and preventing seditious speeches. The ordinance is considered absolutely necessary for the public safety. Mr Morley, intimated, in reply to Mr Redmond, that it was inopportune to discuss the subject now lest agitators iu India might see that the House of Commons was divided on tho matter. (Ministerial and Opposition cheers.) Sir Howard Vincent: “We are not divided. ” Mr W. Redmond: “We are.” On the Road to Mandalay. Lajpatra has been sent to Mandalay, where 43 other political prisoner's are detained for'.othar offences. Further arrests have been made in connection with the riots at Rawalpindi.