INDIA.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 235, 27 June 1908, Page 5

INDIA.

ALLEGED SEDITIOUS ARTICLE, br telegraph—press association —copyright ' Calcutta, June 25. Tilak, a Nationalist leader, has been arrested at Bombay for publishing a seditious nowspaper article. ■ AN ADVOCATE OF "ADVANCED POLICY." Probably this is the B. G. Tilak, loader of the Extremists, the section which in December last ondoavoured to capture the Indian National Congress and to instal Tilak as President. ,'J'he 'Moderates and the Extremists fought, and a split arose which practically wrecked the Congress. The Moderates in an official note declared that "tho rowdyism was all pre-arranged." A shoe was thrown that struck Sir Phirozeshah Morwanji Mohta and Mr. Banerjee, Mr. 'l'ilak's followers then rushed tho platform, brandishing sticks and throwing chairs. At a subsequent moeting of the Extremists Mr. Tilak advocated "a more advanced policy." He charged the Moderates with dragging back the Congress in order to please the Government. Ho asserted that tho high persons who were managing affairs wore determined to bring the Congress from its high pedestal to the status of an All-India Moderate Congress. Ho protested against the high-handed manner in which the question of Mr. Lajpat llai's election as presidont had been brushed aside on tho ground that his nomination would offend tho Government, (Cries of "Shame")