UNREST IN INDIA.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9377, 22 February 1909, Page 5

UNREST IN INDIA.

United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. London, February 20.

The Times’ Dacca correspondent says that the predominant feeling in the civil service is that some of the reform provisions are dangerously unwise, and it condemns Viscount Motley’s frantic haste to make a paradise for the Hindu middle classes. Cultivators will have lees protection than hitherto and the election of natives to the Provincial Council without the right of veto, will mean admitting undesirables. This part is more objectionable than their admission to the Viceroy’s Council, Calcutta, February 20. Repeated bomb outrages have caused the Government to send punitive police forces to the villages and railways round Barrackpur, in addition to the regular police patrolling the line.