"GANDHI RAMP."

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 283, 30 November 1931, Page 7

"GANDHI RAMP."

"IMPUDENT BLUFF."

Scathing Newspaper Attack Bv

Lord Rothermere.

BRITISH PUBLIC WAKING UP.

(United P.A.—Electric Telegraph-Copyright)

(Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, Novembers

Giving self-administration to India would entail the same carnage as turning, all animals in the-zoo into a large cage; ,, writes Lord Rothermere m a vigprous\ article entitled, "The Collapse of the Gandhi Bamp," which is appearing in 100 prominent newspapers in America and many others in the Dominions and Europe.

The article adds:, "The most impudent bluff ever attempted on Britain has broken down the Round Table Conference. British Ministers, with a mutually antagonistic throng of so-called representatives of the various Indian races, have been trying to reconcile the irreconcilable—to achieve the unachievable.

"They have failed to produce a selfgoverning constitution because India is not a nation but is largely divided by fierce hatreds and hostilities lasting oveV thousands of years. Peace, security, justice, education and. civilised'government are boons that Britain alone has conferred on India. They would vanish immediately her authority was withdrawn.

"Gandhi's agitation has .already been responsible for more bloodshed than in the 60 years between the mutiny -and the Great War. Nevertheless, British sentimentalists in high places like Lord Irwin and Captain Wedgwood Benn, Secretary for India in the Labour Government, have done incalculable %arm by parleying with rebellion.

"Gandhi, by craft and false charges Jia's succeeded in deluding sentimentalists throughout the world. The British public at last realises the folly of tolerating longer this open rebel's dangerous activities to chattering babus and a few weakkneed British, politicians.

"He returns to India a vain visionary with a gift of showmanship and as a discredited charlatan."

ROUTING EXTREMISTS.

DRIVE IN CALCUTTA.

CALCUTTA, November 29.

Following upon the recent discovery of arms and ammunition, 15 houees were raided at Calcutta and nine- persona were arrested, including Ganguli, secretary and chief of the Bengal Congress organisation. The Government of the United Provinces has broken off discussions with the Congress leaders on the eubject of rent and revenue payment by Allahabad peasants, who were advised by the Congress to refuse to pay till further reductions are made by the Government. * , An urgent request by Gandhi asking for details of the political situation throughout the country, especially in the United Provinces and Bengal, is likely to be a preliminary to a signal by him for the recommencement of the civil disobedience campaign.