CONFERENCE ON INDIA.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20102, 4 December 1930, Page 11

CONFERENCE ON INDIA.

PREPARING FEDERAL CONSTITUTION. SUB-COMMITTEES AT WORK. 'BRrZISH 01.-I'ICIAX, WISEIiESS.) ffteeeivod December 3rd < 5.5 p.m.) IJUGBY, December 2. Sub-Gomniittce No. 1 of the Indian Round-table Conference, to which has been committed consideration of questions on Federal structure, and over which Lord Sankey presides, began work to-day for the preparation of the framework of the Federal constitution. It will meet every day this week, and in the early stages will be engaged in clearing the ground and beginning more precisely the tasks before it, although it should not be long before positive proposals begin to take shape. The Business Committee met this afternoon and constituted two more subcommittees for which the Delegations Jj-vi submitted Jists of names. The provisional constitution of the sub-commit-tee of which the Foreign (Secretary (Mr A. llendorson) will be chairman, will have 28 members, including three from the Indian States delegation, who will have a watching brief. The Committee which is to consider conditions enabling Burma to be separated from India lias 14 members, but the chairman has not yet been chosen.

ECONOMIC ORGANISATION. LEAGUE DIRECTOR TO VISIT INDIA. (6BITIBH OFFICIAL WIRSLISS.) RUGBY, December 2. A League of Nations communique announces that the Government of India has invited Sir Arthur Salter, director of the economic and financial section of the Loague of Nations, to visit India, in order that the Government may consult him. The Government's letter to the Sec-rotnrv-General (Sir Eric Drummond) states that it hnd been studying; plana for the creation of some organisation for the study of economic questions, and in this connexion it had given attention to organisations which recently had beon established in other countries, and particularly to the work done by the League. The Secretary-General has arranged for Kir Arthur to pay a visit, and h© will leave for India toward the end ot December

BENGALI YOUTHS ARRESTED. (VK7TKI) PRESS ASSOCIATION —BV EZ.ECTBIO TELEQRAriI COPTRIGIIT.) DELHI. December 2. Two Bengali youths have been arrested in connexion with the shooting of the police inspector from a train yesterday.