PROBLEM OF INDIA

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 30, 6 February 1928, Page 7

PROBLEM OF INDIA

COMMISSION ARRIVES, Sir John Simon's Frank Statement. DISARMING SUSPICION. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 12 noon ) RUGBY, February ;1. Sir John Simon and other members of the Statutory Commission arrived at Bombay yesterday. Sir John Simon issued a statement to the Press in the following terms: — "My colleagues and I have set foot in India fully impressed with the responsibility of our work and with the resolve to expend all our energy and goodwill to its discharge.

"The constitutional progress .of British India essentially depends on the friendly and sincere co-operation of the Indian and British representatives.

"It is manifest, however, that there exists at the moment in some quarters a widespread misunderstanding as to what the Commission is setting out to do and uncertainty respecting the methods it proposes to employ.

"We make it our business without delay to remove these misapprehensions and after reaching Delhi and becoming more acquainted with the actual situation, wc intend to mako a statement of the proposed procedure, which should leave no ground for the suspicions which have unfortunately arised. '"Wo mean to take the fullest opportunity open to us for consultation with Indian representatives who are willing to meet us, both during our preliminary visit and when we return for our longer visit in October."