INDIAN GOVERNMENT.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 212, 17 October 1916, Page 5

INDIAN GOVERNMENT.

Received 11.50 SIMLA, October 16. "Nineteen elected Indian members of the Supreme Legislative Council memorialised the Government, suggesting that after th e war half the seats in all councils should be filled by Indians. They also suggest fiscal autonomy for India, abolition of the Secretary of State's Council, permission for Indians to carry arms, to join Volunteers, and to hold commissions in the army.

A DIABOLICAL PLAN. LONDON, Oct 16. Mr. Bourchier, at Bucharest, reprots that in" addition to the explosives found at the German Legation, a case was discovered containing many packets of glanders germs', each sufficient to infect 200 horses. They were addressed to members of the Bulgarian Legation. PLOT AGAINST BUCHAREST. BETRAYED CRETAN REGIMENT. AN APPEAL FOR VENGEANCE. ATHENS, Oct 16. General Ravoularis, commissioned to reconstitute the third Cretan regiment (now interned in Germany) has issued a manifesto appealing to Cretans to avenge the regiment, which was the victim of treachery. ITALIAN COMMUNIQUE. VARIOUS LOCAL ACTIONS. Received 11.55. LONDON, Oct 16. An Italian communique states: Local actions extend to our positions east of Vertoibizza and Gorizia, also on the Carso.

MR . MASSEY INTERVIEWED NEW ZEALAND'S SHARE. London, Oct. 16. Mr Massey, interviewed regarding Dominion participation, said: "We have simply done our duty to the Motherland and ourselves, because we realised that our liberty and progress were threatened almost as greatly as those of the older communities. New Zealand is prepared to make whatever further sacrifices are required. Referring to after the war, Mr Massey said: "I foresee the day when the Empire's reconstruction will be the supreme question Patriotic and Imperial sentiments will not suffice. We need more clear.-thinking and definite plans, and decisive immediate action. We utilise our material and other resources and tighten up inter-Empire and Dominion relations. Preferential treatment would promote and expedite this We must, erect impregnable barriers against German post-war trade. Then we shall stand before the world united nations, Britain invincible and indissoluble in peace and war_