INDIAN DEMANDS.
THREAT BY GANDHI. VICEROY'S APPEAL TO CONGRESS. (UNITED IRESS ASSOCIATION—ELECTRIC tw EGSArK—corvnjoHi.) (Received August 16th, 7.30 p.m.) DELHI, August 16. The reasons given by the All-India Congress for its refusal to attend the London Round Table Conference, include failure to agree to Gandhi's demands, first, for a board of arbitration to watch tho implementing of the Delhi Agreement by both sides, particularly in regard to the collection of land revenue in Gujerat; second, a local bodies' enquiry to decide action in the matter of picketing; and third, the collation. of. land revenue should be dependent on the advice of the Congress. The Viceroy.' Lord" 'WillingdSn, lias filially appealed to the Congress to go to the conference, as the best way of obtaining a real and lasting solution of the present difficulties. Gandhi, interviewed, said if the Conference did not grant the demands of the Congress, civil disobedience •would be resumed on a more intense scale.
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20317, 17 August 1931, Page 11
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