UNREST IN INDIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3074, 19 December 1908, Page 5

UNREST IN INDIA.

SUMMARY JUSTICE.

MALCONTENTS SENT TO GAOL

Received December 18, 8.30 a.m

CALCUTTA, December 17

Ten of the most prominent men arrest:d two days sgo on charges of sedition have been sent to gaol in different places, including Agra, Lucknow, Bassein, and Mandalay.

The summary justice exercised has produced a marked effect in Bengal. Several leading men in Dacca who had openly suppoited sedition have voluntarily sent a deputation to the Commissioner, asking how they can best assist the Government. The secret societies are dissolving. Revolvers have been found buried in the mud of the Hoogli River. SCHEME FOR REFORMS. WHAT THE GOVERNMENT INTEND TO DO. Received December 18, 10.6 D.m. LONDON, December 18. Viscount Morley, in the House of Lords, and Mr T. R. Buchanan, in the Commons, made statements revealing that the Government had a wide scheme for constitutional reforms in India. Viscount Morley said that a Royal Commission would be appointed to inquire into the internal relation between the Government of India and all its subordinate anj co-ordinate parts, and would report in February or March. Viscount Morley deprecated the making of the Indian sky darker than it really is. .He admitted that ihere were formidable" difficulties, out they mist b-? retried in a sense of proportion, and with Lord Minto's intrepid coolness there was no fear of a general rising, but there was a risk of a general panic due to anarchists and terrorism.

EXTREMIST CONGRESS' PRO HIBITED. -^

Received Decerner 18. 10.17 p.m. CALCUTTA, December 18. The Indian authorities have prohibited the extremist congress at Madras.