UNREST IN INDIA.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17343, 3 January 1922, Page 7

UNREST IN INDIA.

ARRESTS OF EXTREMISTS.

A GRAVE SITUATION. Py CabWPiww As»oalatio&—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z, Cable Association.) DELHI, December 30. Tlie Extremist Conference at AHmedabad closed amidst scenes of enthusiasm and in a spirit of condemnation and defiance of the Government, and determination to obtain complete independence. Tho total number of extremists arrested in Calcutta in the Inst six weeks is 3501), ind in llenarea oighty are being arrested daily. In spite of the prohibitions and arrests, the extremists ale enlisting rapidly in the proscribed Volunteer Corps. Gandhi has challenged the Government by announcing that lie will publish in his paper, "Young India," the contents of written copies of the "Independent," the suppression of which was recently reported. LONDON, December 80. Owing to the gravity of the situation in India and the necessity for trained i>dministratorp, the Government has nuked Lord Lytton to succeed Lord llonaldshay as Governor of Bengal. Lord Lytton has accepted tho post. fA few nays ago Lord Ronaidshny made a speech in which he expressed Ins willingness to recommend the Government to institute a truce in India. Lord Lytton was a Civil Lord of the Admiralty in 19W and again in 1919, nnd additional Parliamentary Seeretarv to the Admiralty in 1917 and British Commissioner for Propaganda in France in 1918.]