SAGE COUNSEL

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 230, 29 September 1942, Page 3

SAGE COUNSEL

INDIAN SOLUTION

Time To Foster Alliance With

United Nations

United Press Association—Copyright Rec. 10.30. NEW DELHI, Sept. 28.

The All-India Sikh Conference has passed a resolution urging the acceptance of the Congress demand for the immediate declaration, of India as an independent sovereign State and for the formation of a provisional national Government.

The All-India peasants' organisation—the Central Kisan Council— has passed a resolution urging the removal of the ban against Congress, the release of Gandhi and other Congress members and the formation of a provisional national Government;. fully empowered and deterto unite and mobilise the Indians in close alliance with the United Nations. It also appealed to Indians to turn away from sabotage and terrorist activities, "which do not lead to the weakening of bureaucracy but to the ruin of Indians and disaster to India."

"The time is ripe for mediation in India; we need India's millions on our side against Japan," according to 57 prominent American writers and educators, including Pearl Buck, Upton Sinclair and Clare Boothe, in a full-page advertisement in the New York Times. They urge President Roosevelt and Marshal Chiang Kiashek to "recognise the interest of the United States in the Indian dilemma and use their good offices to ask the British Government and the Indian National Congress to open new conferences, which would speedily bring India into the ranks of the Allies by beginning now a programme for her independence."

There is a growing feeling in India that Gandhi is losing the faith of many of his followers, particularly students, says the Bombay correspondent of the Daily Mail. The latter, politically young and of quickly changing loyalties, are bewildered and disillusioned at the course of the Congress movement. Gandhi led his followers to believe that they could win in a few weeks, and yet to-day the deadlock is as tight "as ever.

Many intelligent students are beginning to feel that world events are passing them by and that their genuine aspirations for independence have been lost in a welter of violenee and abortive demonstrations.

OUTCROP COAL

DISTRIBUTION IN BRITAIN

Rec. 9.30 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 28. Replying to the criticism about the outcrop production in the coal industry and the organisation of sales, the Minister of Fuel and Power, Major Lloyd George, said that the statements about production were not in accordance with the facts.

The distribution of outcrop coal, he said, was being undertaken without profit by statutory selling schemes. The Minister said he was satisfied that the responsibilities of the distributors were conscientiously discharged in the national interest.