INDIAN REFORM.
NATIONAL CONGRESS
SPEECH BY DR. GHOSE
INDIA'S IDEAL
MOHAMMEDANS DISSATISFIED
Received December 29, 9.45 p.m. CALCUTTA, December 29. The Indian National Congress has opened at Madras.
Doctor Ghose was elected President.
In a speech, Dr. Ghose declared that the whole of India was deeply grateful for Viscount Morley's efforts with regard to reform, which gave tha country something like constitutional Government. The Indians had now best show themselves deserving of Britain's confidence, said the speaker. Colonial self-government was India's ideal, though it was very distant. Dr. Ghose said that he hoped the repressive legislation would only be temporary. He ridiculed the idea of shaking British sovereignty by" a few flasks of picric acid and a few pounds of pcwder. Mohammedan papers consider the reforms tantamount to political abandonment of Mohammedans and in favour of Hindus. They also condemn I Viscount Morley for disregarding j Lord Minto's efforts to safeguard the Mohammedans.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3080, 30 December 1908, Page 5
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153INDIAN REFORM. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3080, 30 December 1908, Page 5
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