SERIOUS STATE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 164, 14 July 1930, Page 7

SERIOUS STATE.

INDIAN SITUATION. JMacDonald Deplores Action of Extremists. :LOSDS DEBATE THIS WEEK. (British Omcial Wireless.) (Received 11.C0 a.m.) RUGBY, July 13. Referring to the situation in India in a speech at the Crystal Palace last; night, the Prime Minister, llr. Ramsay MaeDonald, .aid the state or India, to-dav was serious. What was happening' was only adding to India's difficulties and was not advancing her chance of reaching Dominion status. -Men with whom we wish to cooperate,' 5 he said, "have had to be j arrested for actions for which tliey purely Indian Government faced with J conditions such as those they have i created recently, would have compelled the arrest of die people responsible for ■■The whole of this is a melancholy thing., which is unnecessary and foolish. j Men" who are going to be" Governors of [States and responsible for the adniinisI tration ought to look ahead and underI stand the conditions raider which evoluj tion and change are alone possible." Viscount Burnham, who was a mem- | ber of the Indian Statutory Commission, I has given notice that he will ask the I Government in the House of Lords next I Wednesday whether, having regard to I Lord Irwin's statement at Simla on July 9. the report of the Indian Statutory Commission will form the main subject; of consideration and discussion at the round table conference, which is I to assemble here in November next. This will give rise to a, debate which will be the first to be held in Parliament since the Viceroy's recent; declaration. The Prime Minister, in the House of I Commons on Monday, will be asked I whether he proposes to give the House J of Commons an opportunity of discussing J the political situation in India before the House rises at the end of July for j the summer reeess.