STRIFE IN INDIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 February 1922, Page 5

STRIFE IN INDIA.

ANXIETY OF BRITAIN

RIGHTS OF HER PEOPLE.

EQUALITY IN EMPIRE. By Telegraph.—Press Asan.—Copyright. Received Feb. 10, 7.25 p.m. London, Feb. 9. The Hon. E. S. Montagu (Secretary for India), speaking at the 1920 Club, discussed the situation in India. He said there was cause for grave anxiety. The Government s aim was to move at easy stages until India was an equal partner within the Empire. He hoped there would be no color bar against Indians in other parts of the Empire. “If.” he said, "while v/e tell the people of India they can win full partnership in the Empire we also tell them that they are excluded from other parts of the world over which the British flag flies, our policy in India will be impossible. It is wholly inconsistent with our policy to say that there is any part of the Empire from which the Indian is to be debarred because he is an Indian.”

Mr. Montagu added: “The Government is determined to grapple with violence in India. To carry out this determination is not repression, but the ordinary duty of any Government.”— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Amu.

GANDHI’S ARREST IMMINENT. SOURCE OF THE TROUBLE. London, Feb. 9. The representative of the Australian Press understands that Gandhi’s arrest is imminent. The Government of India realises that there, is no hope of any improvement in the situation unless the most prominent wire-puller behind all the politicians is removed. It is not yet known whether he will be deported under the famous ordinance of 1919 empowering the Viceroy to incarcerate potential law-breakers without trial, or whether he will be arrested and tried ae a seditionist.