MUST BE SETTLED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 69, 23 March 1931, Page 7

MUST BE SETTLED.

HINDU-MOSLEM ISSUE.

Congress Condition for Next

India Conference.

GANDHI AND SAFEGUARDS.

(United P.A.-Elcctric Telegraph-Copyright;

(Received 10 a.m.)

DELHI, March 22,

At an informal conference, held at the Viceroy's house, New Delhi, to explore the question of the future procedure for carrying on the work of the Round Table Conference, Gandhi represented the Congress. Others present included delegates to the Round Table Conference and representatives of the Indian States.

The Congress position is that participation in the next London Conference will be conditional on the settlement of the Hindu-Moslem problem. If settlement impossible the British Government may intervene and make a declaration on the question of safeguards for minorities.

In an interview Gandhi said if Lord Sankey and Captain Wedgwood Benn, Secretary for India, regarded the safeguards evolved by the London Conference as final in substance and form there was no use of Congress representatives going to London, and the second conference, as far as India's masses were concerned, must fail. Gandhi doubted that the Hindu-Moslem question could ' be settled before the Congress session at Karachi on Friday.

The Congress leader indicated that when he goes to London Miss Madeline Slade, daughter of the late Admiral Slade, one of Gandhi's most ardent devotees who is now known as Mcera Bei, mr accompany him.

SENSITIVE OF HONOUR

Indian Murders Wife Rather

Than Divorce.

TRIBAL DEMANDS

(Received 10.30 a.m.)

DELHI, March 22.

The sensitiveness over the honour of their women folk ended in a terrible tragedy when a woman who deserted her husband was murdered together with her son and a new-born baby in the Larkana district. The woman left her husband and lived with a man of another tribe for six months. When the husband traced her and brought her back to his house, men of the Jagriana tribe, which is the tribe of her husband, demanded that the husband should divorce her. This he refused to do and hacked the woman to pieces.