INDIA’S DANGER.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 January 1922, Page 5

INDIA’S DANGER.

“REPUBLIC FORMED.” BOAST OF GANDHI. HELP FROM AMERICA'. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Washington, Jan. 4. Gandhi’s agents announce that United States senators are heading a group of Americans pledged to support an Indian republic. Gandhi has cabled to his agents that “a republic has been formed. The American message decided us. An army of defence will be sanctioned and the boycott extended to individuals. Women and children will be safe.”

Indian national propagandists here state that the “American message” was from Senator Norris and Walsh and a number of publicists and jurists pledging United States support for an Indian campaign for independence. Mr. Ghose, director of the American commission to promote self-government for India explains that the proclamation of the Republic of India is due to the pledge sent to Indian Nationalists by a group of liberty-loving Americans. Provisional Governments will be organised in India and all the .provinces placed under a central Government under Gandhi.

The official view is that Gandhi has been led mistakenly to interpret the sympathy extended by certain American citizens as representing general American opinion and that an attempt is being made to secure a definition of the attitude of the United States administration. The Government officially knows nothing of the movement.

ARREST OF

Delhi, Jan. 4. Four arrests were made in Allahabad on charges of making violent speeches. Those arrested, who include tbe son and nephew of Pundit Malaviya, have been sentenced to eighteen months’ rigorous imprisonment.