PRINCES SUBMIT TERMS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20088, 18 November 1930, Page 11

PRINCES SUBMIT TERMS.

♦ CONFERENCE ON INDIA QUESTION 01' ENTERING FEDERATION. Six CONDITIONS STATED. - riU , pt:ES3 ASSOCIATION -UT tLSWSW " TELKuRAi'H —COPYUISIIT.I i Received November .18th, a.^n.^ LONDON", November 17. fhe "Daily Telegraph" says an Indian Princes 7 deputation met, tho BritIndia representatives at the Carlijn Hotel yesterday and detailed tho terms en which they were prepared to enter the Federation, if an agreement acceptable to all the parties is reached. The conditions are: (1) That the Viceroy remains »s the King's representative. (2) That all dynastic questions affecting the Princes' succession, marriage, and powers within their States, etc., shall be left exclusively to themselves, the Federal Government having so authority. (3) That they shall have a fair share ■a all State services in British India and the Indian States, such as rail ways, canals, irrigation, and custoriis. (4) That the army remains under the Viceroy, who may employ State troops when necessary. (5) Existing treaties to remain, and not be changed into fresh agreements vqtii the All-India Government. (6) Disciplinary authority shall bo eicreiscil in certain cases by the Viceroy, and such as shall he left to the Council of Princes. It is also understood that the Princes trill seek powerful representation ia ths Second Chamber. The only Prince opposed to entering Ihe All-India Federation ia tlie Njzam of Siderobad. Moreover, the Hindu leaders have agreed to recognise the North Frontier, the West Province, and the Punjab ns predominantly Moslem, and agree to a separation of Sind Irom Bombav. The Moslem demand tor a 33 par wit. representation in the Central

Legislature hag not been agreed to. the question of the equitable representation of Hindus and Moslems in the I-üblic services is left to a Public Seri ices Commis*i<.n, such as exists in the Irish Free Stata. DISSENSION DENIED. HINDUS AND MOSLEMS. • i'.'lal' OUTZCUI, tVIKtLBSS. RUGBY, November lti. A farther informal meeting of the Ui-itisb-ludia delegation to the Round Table Conference was held at St. James Palace yesterday, and another but' been fixed for Tuesday, folio-tying plenary sitting. lie report that the Moslem deleptej had issued an ultimatum to the Binsng during the discussions on the communal demand has been denied. The denial is a joint one, and was authorised bj the British and Indian delegation!), and was issued by the Aga Khan lad Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru. It says that an ultimatum has been issued neither by the nor the Hindus, hot that on the contrary the discussions been friendly and harmonious. It continues: "There is no justification at all for the statement that there are any quarrels over-the Conference k«ff. The differences in points of view it? in the protests of adjustment from 'lay to dav. - ' ] India's Privilege. j l;.f* liaekwai- of Baroda, speaking at a reception given by the Bast India Association in honour of the Conference delegates, referred to the abundant hosjititity being extended to thpni in Lonflw, and expressed the warmest appretiation of the Association's unremitting ffforts to promote mutual understanding wtireen the best elements in Britain am} India. Much pt: the* reform accompushed in India, whether political, economic, ar spcjal, had been helped on by Association. Delegates had come Ir( ®! SVgry part pf and repre-

«nted all the and dialects, yet were all equally united in the s ermination to reach an agreement setV? ® ftP best interests of India as a H'ls, he believed, was a sure guarantee of ultimate success. The safqni»«'i Sr eatnes " of th <-- British Em : JL® - a y ln the fact that her people ~A. freedom to develop aewis.'^i- 0 individual genius. T(i at jr odia's need and earnest desire. ni«. t^t India shoiild take the Oop 8 '" Was er P r i v il e gcs and her British'' r„ se, f-B o verniri S un jt of the fort-. Let them go toli*h V? a s l ) 'F' t 9* mutual trust and and of the peatness of their task. Six John Simon's Opinion. Sir a »- t0 t ' 13 Conference *w vbJJJ"- 0 "' s .P eakin g at ii a! 0 . said that the work of fifth of fh^ 0 |" S^'*n ' , ' on un< l° r which one- * race would live, was t|rved nr! t'u -i UU( ' those who t L ,e Statutory Commission , l0:lg courß ° ot ' el ° s ? Wore it „ scrutiny and consultation propajaij u P OSS j ' t - > t0 put forward Mi !Cll ' ether they be •wineotod an - v ri » te farmed a 0,16 se " tcn ™ from a % He " P S i re P ! > rt might use*tt<us)ed tht* ' ll ™ ust not ha itrent d™t* >OU ean a dif; % <W>B f r " J different materials t>:, 4!B a rmo»1- 0111 si Picture without ,e Hi:tiß (•ar ot i as to Aether what gt and uuaft . l!Ctea