RULE IN INDIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 August 1922, Page 5

RULE IN INDIA.

BRITAIN WILL REMAIN. CO-OPERATION OF INDIANS. BARRIER to anarchy. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Aug. 3, 5.5 p.m London, Aug. 2. A debate in the House of Commons on the Indian Civil Service led to an interesting declaration by Mr. Lloyd George upon Britain’s Indian policy. The Prime' Minister said the most serious testing-time of the new system had not yet been reached, but in a year or 18 months there would be another election, and a good deal depended upon the character of the Legislature chosen then. At the present time the nou-co-operative movement was in a state of collapse.

It must be made plain that Britain would in no circumstances reliquish her responsibility regarding India. If Britain withdrew nothing would ensue but strife and anarchy. She wanted the co-operation of the Indian people, not in order that it might lead to the relinquishment of India, but to partnership in the British Empire. Whatever success the Indian Legislatures had Britain could not see them dispensing with the guidance and assistance of a small nucleus of British Civil - Servants. They were the steel-frame of the whole struc-ture.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.