EXTREMISTS IN INDIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 December 1921, Page 5

EXTREMISTS IN INDIA.

NON-VIOLENCE FAVORED. PASSIVE UNREST. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Delhi, Dec. 28. The Ahmedabad Congress carried in committee a resolution favoring nonviolence, stating that civil disobedience was the only civilised effective substitute for armed rebellion, and, in order to concentrate attention thereon, ail other activities should be suspended. The resolution, urges t4ie organisation of public meetings throughout the country, notwithstanding their prohibition, and appeals to all to offer themselves quietly for arrest by becoming volunteers.

The resolution appoints Ghandi sole executive authority, and invests him, and, in view of the possibility of his arrest, his successors with full powers over the congress organisation, with a proviso that Gandhi or his successors are not authorised to conclude any terms of peace with the Raj, or BritisJ* Government, without the previous sanction of Congress. After hearing lengthy statements by Pundit Malaviya and Ghandi the Congress followed the latter’s advice by rejecting the proposal, put forward by Malaviya, that the resolution be reconsidered, so as to delete the portion advising aggressive civil disobedience, and to oubmit to open Congress a resolution expressing the deire for a round table conference on reasonable and honorable terms.

Ghandi pointed out, however, that the rejection did not preclude the working committee or Congress Committee agreeing later to a conference, but it would be undignified to pass the resolution suggested. Gandhi declared there was nothing in the Vice-Regal pronouncements to show the change of heart which was jo necessary for the success of the conference.