EASTERN TROUBLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3583, 20 September 1920, Page 5

EASTERN TROUBLES.

BRITISH RULE IN INDIA

Received 8.45 a.m

LONDON, Sept. 19

The fanatical boycott of the British Government, trade officials, and Courts in India is being watched with great interest. There anxiety lest it should wreck the reform scheme, bringing triumph for Dyerism. Mr J, L. Garvin, in the Observer, writes:—"A perilous crisis is upon British rule, and the next 'three months will be the most fateful in Indian history." Mr Garvin describes Ghandi as an exalted idealist of concentrated sincerity, deaf to all prudential argument, and adds: "His vast emotional policy is leading him to boycott even the schools,, railways, and telegraphs, o'pening the floodgate of anarchy, which would mean that the revenue would be suspended, commerce would cease, lawyers would not appear in the Courts, and excitement would engender violence."' Mr Garvin finds hope in the-withdrawal of half the delegates from the Congress before the boycott vote, but he as-

p-its that the moderates in India must throw themselves against Ghandtfs campaign if reforms are to be saved.

CHINA AND THE OPIUM TRAFFIC

Received 9.50 a.m.

NEW YORK, Sept. 19,

Telegrams from Aruoy, China, state that organised action is being taken to prevent the planting of a new crop of opium in Fukien Province. Educational, business, and religious organisations are co-operating in order to limit the growth of the opium habit.

FIGHTING IN SYRIA. Received 9.50 a.m. CONSTANTINOPLE. Sept. 19. Nationalists attacked Aleppo, cutting the railway line to Alexandretta. Advices from Beirut state that fire greatly damaged Kerahan. The French casualties totalled one hundred.