RESTLESS INDIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3069, 14 December 1908, Page 5

RESTLESS INDIA.

CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph CopynK'-.

GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S WARNING.

APPREHENSIONS OF HIDDEN

DANGER

CRIPPLING PUBLIC LIFE,

Received December 23, 4.15 p.m CALCUTTA, December 13.

The Governor-General, Lord Minto, in Council, emphasised that personal and public security was dangerously threatened, and calling for strong measures to terminate the apprehension of hidden danger which was crippling the daily life of the paople.

He appealed to the sense of the whole community to co-operate with the authorities to insure order and security, enabling attention to be turned to the Secretary of State for India's projected reforms.

SEDITIOUS AND ANARCHIST OFFENCES. SPECIAL TRIBUNE IN INDIA. BILL PASSED. NATIVE MEMBERS WARMLY SUPPORT IT. CALCUTTA, December 12. The Council passed the Sedition Bill, the native members warmly acquiescing . Sir Harry Adamson, a member of the Council, mentioned that an organisation of seditious volunteers numbered 15,000 in Eastern B-jngal, their influence being greatly fostered by boycotting, arson, dacoities and terrorisation.

It has been stated that the class of politicians openly hostile to British rule represent only a faction of the educated people, and that their tools are unfledged students ana the dregs of the population. They are, however, so noisy that, except among the Mohamedans, who have clearly and entirely dissociated themselves from the movement, persons of mpdigjs{;j9n and loyalty cannot Le heard,