VICEROY'S WARNING

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 132, 27 January 1932, Page 5

VICEROY'S WARNING

(Press. Assn.-

CHALLENGE AcCEFTEb no COMjPROMI sej wj^h those who. . . do -not obey law economic po.sition sound

-By Telegraph— -Copyright) .

i . calcuttaj Monday. .The. Viceroy, the EarL:of don, . addressing the Legislative As" sembly at -New Delhi, reyiewed • Ihe political situation. He declared -that there had been no departure .by himself or the Goverriment frpni the path pf conciliatien until Congress itself had wantonly torn up the pact. ■ Nb Government worth the name, he added, would hesitate to accbpt a challenge. Compromise was impossible with those who chose to break the law. There could be np relaxation of measures while the circumstances made them necessary. The Viceroy referred tp the improved price pf agricultural products, declaring that the cpuntry's economic situation was sound and coihpared favourably with other ceuntries as the result of keeping the rupee linked with sterling. India's floating debt had- been reduced from, £63,000,000 to £45,000,000, and there was a mark--ed improvement in. India's credit. B.oycott Maintained The campaign of boycott on British goods shows no signs of abating.in Calcutta and Bombay, where orgariised victimisation and extortion in the bazaars are being carried on by Congress agents. Indian shops in Bombay are selling exclusively foreign goods and are plastered with posters bearing boycott slogans,, and merchants refusing to subscribe to the Congress funds are threatened by gangs of hooligans. In some cases, shops have been looted and wrecked beeause their owners have refused to obey the Congx^ess mandate to close in sympathy with the arrest of the Congress chiefs. This new form of oppression has resultedtin the Bombay Stock Exthree weeks. change being virtually closed for