INDIANS LIBERATED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 253, 25 October 1932, Page 7

INDIANS LIBERATED.

Civil Disobedience Movement Improving. TROOPS FOR BENGAL. (Received 12 noon.) RUGBY, October 24. In the House of Commons it was stated that there have been no recent developments of importance regarding the civil disobedience movement in India. Attempts had been made to revive interest by holding conferences and making raids on buildings, seized by the Government to prevent their being used for unlawful purposes. The police had little difficulty in preventing the raiders from attaining their objectives.

All the provinces continue to report a general improvement. The number of persons in gaol for civil disobedience offences has fallen from 31,194 at the end of May, to 21,422 at the end of August.

Owing to a number of terrorist outrages during the last three months in Bengal, however, seven additional infantry battalions have been stationed at different parts of the province and will remain there while the circumstances demand. DRAG ON DEPRESSION. INDIA'S GOLD TO RESCUE. CALCUTTA, October 20. By'-her gold exports of £60,000,000 during the last 12 months, India has materially assisted in stimulating the rise in prices and in arresting the world depression. A year has passed since Britain went off the gold standard, and the flow of hoarded Indian gold began.

Not only have these vast exports helped- India to weather the trade decline bettw than most nations, and to meet her current liabilities to Britain in gold, but they have enabled Britain to liquidate. her French and American debts with promptitude. India's gold exports during the past year are estimated at three-quarters of the average world annual output in recent years.