INDIA TO-DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 May 1922, Page 5

INDIA TO-DAY.

CHANGES FOR THE WORSE. UPHEAVAL UNLIKELY. THE MAJORITY CONTENT. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Sydney, May 30. Captain Latouche, of the Royal Indian Marine, has arrived after 31 years of service in India. He says - there ts no doubt that India is in a had way. The worst feature of the situation is the general exodus of whites. Slowly but surely India is losing its most trusted servants who are being replaced in a wholesale manner by Indians, mainly Babus from Bengal and Madras. They are clever and able to pass any examination without difficulty, but when it comes to utilising their knowledge as officials they are failures. The natives had learned to trust the whites impartially to execute their'public duties, but the same confidence is not shown in the integrity of the Indians who are replacing them. The natives, who love litigation, employ every wile to avoid appearing before Indian Magistrates. They squander money in taking cases to the highest courts, so that white Judges can try them. Captain Latouche considered that a general upheaval in India is improbable. There are so many different races and castes that a concerted movement is out of the question. Another Anglo-Indian, in a letter to the Press, deplores the fact -that Mrs. Besant’s visit to Australia includes pushing the campaign for securing India’s freedom, independence, and selfdetermination. He says Indians have already all three to a greater extent than the inhabitants of any other civilised country. Nowhere is such freedom from annoying restrictions. After weightily pressing the difficulties surrounding tlie British administration, he says that Australia re too young a country to understand Indian questions and adds: “The bulk of the enormous population of India is content -and has no desire for a change of rulers. No one knows better than Mrs. Besant and her followers that the mines they are so assiduously laying will, if exploded, lead to such a holocaust that India will be thrown back centuries, and that those who suffer most will be the poor misguided illiterates who never enjoyed such freedom, self-determination and independence as under British rule.”