INDIAN UNREST.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 January 1922, Page 5

INDIAN UNREST.

MALCONTENTS’ POLICY. NON-VIOLENCE CAMPAIGN. MASKING SEDITION. By Telegraph.—Press Delhi, Jan. 1. The whole tone of the conference at Ahmedabad was one of violence, though the slogan of non-violence entered into all the resolutions. It is generally recognised that non-violence was merely a method of trying to cover seditious activities. The majority of Ghandi’s followers are composed of ignorant, uncontrolled masses, who merely see in the Ghandist creed a means of upsetting the established law and order.

Resolutions were passed by the Congress to disobey all Government orders, to encourage everyone to follow this lead and to provide an extensive recruiting campaign for the proscribed volunteers whose main duty would be to intimidate others. This is bound to lead to disorders.

Following the Extremist conference came the conference of the All India Moslem League who are also non-vio-lence extremists.

The president, Hazrat Mohani. called upon Ghandi to declare an Indian Republic on January 1, to be called the United States of India, to be attained by. all possible means, including guerilla ’warfare should martial law be proclaimed. Addressing the All India Moslem League Congress, at which Ghandi and other prominent extremists were present, the president, Hazrat Mohani, in urging the proclamation of an Indian Republic, said they sjiould have their own armies and their own Parliament. He admitted that such a Government could not be maintained by peaceful means. He believed that when the Indian Government had recourse to military measures the movement could not remain non-violent, therefore he favpred the removal of the non-vio-lence limitations, because the people could not stand repression without retaliation.

Mohani assured the Hindus that their fears of what might happen under a free India were groundless, because India belonged equally to the Hindus and Moslems, and the Moslems would stand by the Hindus to the last for the attainment of independence.