INDIAN AFFAIRS.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16945, 21 September 1920, Page 7

INDIAN AFFAIRS.

THE NON-CO-OPERATION MOVEMENT. (By Cable—Press Association—Copyright.) (United Servioe.) ' LONDON, September 19. The fanatical boycott of the British Government, trade officials, and courts in India is being watched with great interest. There is anxiety lest it wreck the reform Bcheme, bringing a triumph for Dyer ism. Mr J. L. Garvin writes in tho "Observer" :—"A perilous crisis is upon British rule, and the next three months will be the most fateful in Indian history." /

Mr Garvin describes Gandhi as an exalted idealist of concentrated sincerity, deaf to all prudential argument, and says his vast, emotional policy is leading him to boycott even the schools, railways, and telegraphs, opening the flood-gate of anarchy, which will mean that revenue will be suspended, commerce will cease, and lawyers will not appear in the oourts. The excitement will engender violence. Mr Garvin finds hope in the withdrawal of half the delegates from' the Indian National Congress before the boycott was agreed upon, but he asserts that the moderates in India must throw themselves against Gandhi's campaign if the reforms jn India are to bo saved.

THE REFORM ACT,

(Beuter's Telegrams.) LONDON, September 19. Sir William Meyer has been appointed first High Commissioner' for India, in the United Kingdom, under tho new Indian Reform Act.

[Sir William Stevenson Meyer, G.C.1.E., K.C.5.1., entered the Indian Civil Service in 1881 and retired in 1918. He was Assistant-Secretary to the Madras Government, 1886-89; Secretary of the Board,of Revenue, 189094; Deputy-Secretary of the Financial Department, Government of India, 1896-1901; Editor, Imperial. Gazetteer of India, 1902-04; Financial Secretary Government of India, 1905-09; Chief Secretary, Government .of Madras, 1909; Member of Royal Coinmission on Decentralisation in India, 1907-09; a •delegate to the Hague International Conference, 1911-12; President, Central Recruiting Board, India, 1917-18; and a member of the Council of the Gover-nor-General of Indja, 1913-18.]