INDIAN AFFAIRS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19928, 15 May 1930, Page 11

INDIAN AFFAIRS.

THE CONFERENCE PROPOSALS. NATIONALISTS NOT ENTHUSIASTIC (Received May 14th, 7 p.m.) (trtrmsiD mass as»ociatio«--»* kmctwo TILMBAPy—COPTBtGH'i!.; DELHI, May 14 The reference by the Viceroy (Lord . Irwin) to the possibility of Indian delegates having a roundtable 'conference with members of the Imperial Conference arouses no enthusiasm in India. The Nationalist Press criticises the suggestion, and many leaders are nervous regarding tha influence of the Prime Ministers of the Dominions, which hud repeatedly denied citizen rights, even admission, to Indian subjects. The reeling is that the conference should be a fctraJght-ont one between representatives of Indian Nationalists and the Government, which alone has the power to grant their aspirations.—* ''The Tlm«" Cables. CONTINUED UNREST AT SHOLAPUR. MORE TROOPS ARRIVE. (Received May 15th, 12.25 a.m.) DELHI, May'l4. What is described as a. tentative form of martial law has been declared at Sholapur, where, owing to continued unrest, the whole of the Second Royal Ulster Eifles, with a battalion from headquarter, has arrived from Poona. VOLUNTEERS ARRESTED. CLASH AT MOSLEM FESTIVAL. DELHI, May 13. Nearly 100 arrests were made this morning of National Congress volunteers at the Harrison road camp, on suspicion of complicity in the Chittagong outrage. Belated accounts are arriving of a clash during the Moslem festival in the district of Assam. It is estimated that there were 100 casualties, including three deaths, INTERROGATION OF JOURNALIST. NEWSPAPER PROPRIETORS PROTEST. LONDON, May 18. j The Newspaper Proprietors' Association has sent a letter to Mr Bamsay Mao Donald regretting the Govern* moat's use of tho Official Secrets Act against the newspapers" publishing the decision to arrest Gandhi, and expressing the opinion that the interrogation of the journalist concerned- who had been an .unjustifiable infraction of tho formation by legitimate methods, had been An unjustifiable infraction of the freedom of the Press, and urging the amendment ot sections of the Act relating to civil affairs, GANDHI'S DETENTION. CONDITIONS NOT UNCOMFORTABLE. (DhirisK ontouh mMttai.) RUGBY, May Is. Referring to his written reply to a Parliamentary question on tho conditions in which Gandhi is undergoing detention, the Secretary of State for India, Mr W. Wedgwood Bonn, states that Gandhi is occupying the same quarters as those he had during his imprisonment in 1932. He has the necessary furniture, in rooms provided with electric light, and with Wide verandahs and a small garden in front. Gandhi has complats liberty to take what exercise he desires. He Sleeps in the open, and is not closely imprisoned. He is being supplied with his usual diet, and receives an allowance.