INDIAN UNREST.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20413, 7 December 1931, Page 9

INDIAN UNREST.

♦ HATRED OF BRITISH. INTENSIVE BOYCOTT PROPOSED. EUROPEAN WOMAN ASSAULTER). (UKITBD PRESS ASSOCIATION—IST ELKCTKIO TELBGRAPH—COPI'SIGHT.) (Received December 6th, 6 p.m.) DELHI, December 5. Hatred of the British is to be found in every line of the resolution now before the Bengal Congress Conference at Berhampore, which proposes to restart an intensive boycott of everything British, including cotton goods, banks, insurance companies, and ships, by propaganda and picketing. Civil disobedience is also to bo resinned. Tho villagers are asked not to pay taxes.

A European woman, the headmistress at fundla railway school, near Cawnpore, was brutally assaulted by tivo unknown Indians, while having dinner. She was sent to hospital in a precarious condition. It is believed that robbery was the motive of the outrage. DEBATE ON INDIA. GOVERNMENT POLICY ENDORSED. OPINION OF BRITISH CONSERVATIVES. (BRITISH OTFICIAt. VTIBBLMS.) ItUGBY, December 4. Tho House of Commons endorsed the Government's Indian policy by 369 votes to 43. In the later stages of tho debate it became clear that the statements made on behalf of the Government, including that of Sir John Simon (Foreign Secretary) satisfied all but a small minority. -

Mr J. S. chairman of the Conservative Coiaunttee on [ndia, said tho House need liavo no hesitation in accepting the Government's proposals. i -Mr Molsou ('Conservative) opposed Mi' Winston Churchill's amendment as being calculated to prejudice pood relations in India. He hoped that Mi Gandhi and tho Congress would see that the spirit of the Irwin-Gandlu agreement, now beinc broken by the boycott of British mills in India, was carried out. . Sir Austen Chamberlain (Conservative) said Mr Churchill was asking ior something 110 honourable body coulu approve. Mr George Lansburv (Leader of the Opposition) said they were most anxious to see tho negotiations continued. The "News-Chronicle , says the division showed in the nlainesfc possible manner that the Government was authorised to pursue the policy defined bv tho Prime Minister (Mr Ramsay Mac Donald) and Sir Samuel Home (Secretary of State for India). Any doubts in India or elsewhere as to whether the country was behind Government policy were now settled. KEEN INTEREST. MR CHURCHILL CHEERED. LONDON, December 4. The India debate excited tho keenest interest. Mr Winston Churchill's speech was among the ;nost effective he lias ever made, though it would not be safe to assumo from tho division that the House was practically wholly hostile, or that Mr Churchill did not represent a section of opinion in tn© House of Commons and the country. Tho Parliamentary correspondents ot tho "Morning Post" and the "Daily Telegraph" unite in testifying to .the remarkable reception accorded Mr Churchill. Tho cheering grew in volume and enthusiasm as tho speech lengthened. < The "Daily Telegraph says the majority of those cheering probably had no intention of voting in favour of the amendment, though there were a few moments when even this seemed possible. f FULL OF HOPE. MR GANDHI DEPARTS. (Received December 6th, 5.5 p-m.) LONDON. December 5. Before entraining homeward Mr Gandhi said it had been coining. He was leaving full of hope for India.

FINAL INTERVIEWS. delegates returning home. (BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRBLSSS.) (Received December 6th, 5.5 p.m.) RUGBY, December 4. Many prominent Indian delegates of tho Round-Table Conference are returning home during the next few days. Befort) departing they are making farewell calls on the Prime Minister and other Ministers with whom tliev had been so closely associated during the last few weeks. Among those who had an interview ol this character with the Prime Minister, Mr Itartisav Mac Donald. to-day, was Mr Gandhi, who leaves London to-morrow. MR LLOYD GEORGE. WELCOME IN BOMBAY. (Received December Gtli, 6 p.m.) DELHI. December 5. Mr Lloyd George received a civic welcome in Bombay. < Iteulving to the Mayor s speech, M Lloyd George urged India to obseiv narsoverance and patience.