CONCESSIONS TO INDIA.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 667, 18 November 1909, Page 7

CONCESSIONS TO INDIA.

NEW COUNCILS. MOSLEM CLAIMS'EECOGNISED. (Df Tolecraph.-ProM ABBOclatlon.-OopjrigliU Calcutta, Novemtltr IS. Details of Indian roforms havo been gazetted in Calcutta. Tho Viceroy's Council will havo an official majority of throe, and all tho provincial councils non-official majorities, ranging from fourteen in Bengal to. threo in Burma. The Mohammedans' are to bo adequately roprosontod on tho Viceroy's Council. IMMIGRATION CONDITIONS. London, November 16. Tho Imperial Government is enforcing now measures to select'.immigrants for, tho South African colonies. Aga Khan, presidont of the All India Moslem Loague, and Amoor Ali, president of tho London Branch, considor that the new regulations constitute a fulfilment of tho plodgos made to tho Mosloms, and are far in I advance of tho earlier proposals. Thoy strongly recommend their' loyal acceptance. extbemists~~not satisfied. BOYCOTTING MIFORMS. | (Eeo. November 17, 11.10 pjn.) [ London, November 17. , ,Tho Calcutta correspondent of "The Times" report? that the vernacuar pross condemns tho council's scheme, and that tho. oxtromista aro promoting a boycott of the reforms. THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION. (Boc> November 17, 11.10 pjn.) Calcutta, November 17. Tho Viceroy, Lord Minto, and Lady Minto, on whose lives an attempt was inado by a Hindu bomb-thrower at Ahmodabad, have received messages of sympathy from all parts of the world. AGA KHAN'S PLEA FOR MOSLEMS. His Highness tho Aga Khan is tho spiritual head of a large: section of the Mohammedan world, and one of tho political loaders of the Mosloms. Ho presided at a meeting of the All India Moslem League (London.Branch) in London last Juno, and put in a Btrong plea, based largely on Mohammedan loyalty, for a fair share of representation in tho altered administration. The Aga Khan said that through the 6torm and stress of tho last few years tho sixty-two million Mussulmans. in , India had remained firm and unswerving in their devotion and loyalty to the King-Emperor. They had not claimed self-government, but if, in tho shaping of the plans of tho Government, the pledges made to/them were not carried out to tho full, the reforms were doomed to failure. The cabled; concessions to Mosloms, both as regards the immigration law and the new Viceroy's Council, are no doubt largely due to the influence of the Aga Khan and other leading Mohammedans. Some time ago a deputation asking for special Mohammedan representation waited on tlio Secretary for India, Lord Morlcy, who refused to givo tho required assurances. The Indian Mohammedans point out that, in a common vote with Hindus, they would bo out-weighed numerically.