DEMONSTRATIONS FAIL

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 116, 8 January 1932, Page 5

DEMONSTRATIONS FAIL

(British Official Wireless

GOVERNMENT FIRMNESS IN INDIA HAS SALUTARY ■ . EFFECT FURTHER ORDINANCES ISSUED

RUGBY, Wednesday. An extensive round-up of Congress leaders is taking place in Bombay. Among others taken into custody were Nariman, the head of the body of Gongress committees and Nagindas, one of the chief organisers of the civil disobedience campaign. No serious trouble was encountered by the police. A clash between the police and the crowd in Benares resulted from the police being pelted with stones. ' ' The "Daily News" states : "Reports from all parts of India, and particularly the north, show that effbrts to organise hartais and other demonstrations against the Government's action have failen flat." :: Further emergency ordinances were issued yesterday. These . give special powers to the magistracy for coping with the civil disobedience moVement. Broadly speaking, • the ordinances now in force have been drafted in the light of earlier experience of Congress methods, and- are designed to counter these * promptly and" with a minimum of disturbance. ■ " Th6 "Manchester Guardian" in a suivey of these measures, says : "While the area affected by the emergency powers may he extended if required, the Government will naturally be anxious to avoid as far as possible putting measures into force that would interfere with the normal movements of the population."