THE UNREST IN INDIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8443, 16 May 1907, Page 5

THE UNREST IN INDIA.

LONDON, May 14. In the House of Commons, Mr Morley, Secretary for India, in reply to Mr Balfour, Leader of the Opposition, said that the measures that had been taken in the Punjab sufficed for the maintenance of tranquility. The situation in Eastern Bengal, said Mr Morley, is strained. Hindu agitators are violently attempting to compel * Mohammedans, to abstain from purchasing goods in the markets. Great unrest continues, hence a new ordinance has been promulgated to regulate public meetings and to prevent seditious : speeches being made. ! The ordinance, Mr Morley?;stated, j was considered absolutely necessary i in the interest of public safety. He intimated, Jn reply to Mr W. Redmond, that it is inopportune" to discuss the subject now, lest agitators in India should see that the House of Commons is divided on the matter. (Ministerial and Opposition cheers.) Sir Howard Vincent (Conservative member for Sheffield-Central)"We are not divided." Mr W. Redmond: "We are/' TO MANDALAY. Received May 15, 8.7 a.m. CALCUTTA, May 14. Laj Patra, the deported Hindu agitator, has been sent to Mandalay, the chief town of Upper Burmah, where forty-two other political prisoners are „ detained' for ■ other, offences. , t: - ;

FURTHER ARRESTS. Received May 15, 12.13 p.m. CALCUTTA, Mpy 15. Further arrests have been made in connection with the riots at Rawalpindi. . , ■ -V Received May 16, 12.5 a.m. ; LONDON, Mair 15. The Daily Telegraph's Allahabad correspondent states that Mr Morley's firmness is having, a salutary effect on the agitators.