INDIA.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 242, 6 July 1908, Page 7

INDIA.

• EDITOR TO GO TO GAOL FOR THREE YEARS. (bt telegraph:— peess association—copyright.) Calcutta, July 3. The . editor, of the newspaper "Hindswarajyn" 'was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for publishing seditious articles.

THE ARREST OF DR. GHOSE. Our Christchurch correspondent telegraphs that a contributor to the ''Press" writes:— "To those. interested in affairs in India. tho announcement in Saturday's paper that seven men, including Ghose (a famous Bengal doctor) had boon arrested in connection /with an. attempt to dynamite a train, has a significance beyond tlie ordinary, for it apparently points to _ tho . fact that the Moderate, party m Bengali politics has adopted the tactics of the Extremists. Ghose is a common Bengali titlo, but the reference can hardly be to anyone but Pras Behari Ghose,-a Doctor of Laws of the Calcutta University, whose talents have secured for him a seat on the Supreme Legislative Council of India. He is the leading authority on the Bengal rent law, a member of the Calcutta Corporation, a Fellow of the Calcutta University, and a leading man in many other public bodies. He was the nominee of the Moderates for the .Presidency of the last National Congress at Surat, which was broken up by Mahratta Extremists, headed by Bal Gangahnar Tilak, who was recently arrested for sedition. ' Dr. Ghose is.jof course, a'strong advoca'te.of the'principle of Swadeshi, and has established a match factory at Caloutta in accordance with his views. A visit which the. police paid to- this factory some months ago, in_: accordance with tho provisions of the Indian Labouf laws, was magnified by, tho native Press into a search for bombs." 1