ALL-INDIA CONGRESS.
BOYCOTT OP LONDON CONFERENCE. (BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.) RUGBY, August 14. News has reached London to-day that the All-India Congress, sitting ia Bombay, has decided not to co-operaU in the Louden Round-Table Conference. The decision has been arrived at following the receipt by Mr Gandhi of what he regarded as an unsatisfactory reply from the Viceroy, Lord Willingdon, to whom he addressed a. grievance alleging coercion in the collection of the lancl tax in Gijerat. The Bombay Government found that only ordinary legal procedure had been followed, and there had been no breach of the Delhi truce. Although the . decision of the Conpress will ho received with regret, tlx« Conference will proceed with its work according to plan. The co-operation of the Congress in the Conference was one of the primary objects of the agreement arrived at between Lord Irwin and Mr Gandhi. . The authorities in India have carried out the terms of the agreement both in the letter and the spirit. Everything possible, consistent with the responsibility of the authorities for the operation of ordinary law, has been done to smooth away, difficulties.
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20316, 15 August 1931, Page 15
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