UNREST IN INDIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9126, 27 June 1908, Page 5

UNREST IN INDIA.

AREESi' ok a national LEADEN. — Received June 26, 10.10 a.m. CALCUTTA, June 25. Tilak, a Nationalist leader, has ueen arrested at Bombay for publishing a seditious nawspauer article.

Mr Romssh Cliunder Dutt, member of the Indian Decentralisation Commission, speaking to Renter's representative recently, said: —"The development of anarchism has been foreseen. It is the result of the growing feeling among the many discontented Indians that the Government is not trying seriously to solve the present day political problems. They want a large measure of self-government, and, until it is granted, crime is, as was the case in Ireland, sure to increase. In my opinion, these outrages are based on a feeling which is not national so much as local, and I hesitate to believe stories of plots against Lord Kitchener and the Viceroy. The Decentralisation Committee, of which I am a member, has, of course, only to deal with the smaller question of administration, and any action taken on our report can do but little to remove the grievances of the Indian. The Government has reserved for itself the more important matters, and it is for the Government to meet the wishes of India. It would be a calamity to withhold reforms on account of any increase in crime."