INDIAN GOVERNMENT
THE SIMON COMMISSION. . SOME HOSTILITY SHOWN. INTENSE CAST BITTERNESS. (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, This' Day. Mr Gardiner, a retired police superintendent in the United Provinces of North India, who is on a visit to Australia, said there was a feeling throughout India that it would be impossible for the commission under Sir John Simon, of inquiry into the question of the Government of India, to submit a report which would be satisfactory to all factions. The commission met with a great deal of hostility, through a number of educated agitators working through the country endeavouring to arouse the people to extreme action, and no one could say what would happen when the report was made. Mr Gardiner added that an almost insuperable obstacle to a successful form of administration was the intense east bitterness between Hindus and Mohammedans. Many people were of the opinion that on this rock of cast hatred would founder the hopes of an administration acceptable to all.—Australian Press Association.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 156, 13 April 1928, Page 5
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