A COMING STORM.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1706, 25 March 1913, Page 5

A COMING STORM.

,■■ TROUBLE IN INDIA. MOSLEM LEAGUE PREDICTION. By Telcsrauli—Press Association—Oonyrlnht Delhi, .March-23. At the All-India. Moslem League Conference at Lucknow, Mahomed Chafi iu his presidential address said the Indian political atmosphere was already reverberating with distant echoes of a coining storm, of which tho .forerunners were the murmurs cf provincial autonomy; the appearance of a non-official.majority in the Imperial legislative Council; and the appointment of commissions to incjuiro into tho condition of the army , and j public

The president deprecated the outrage on the Viceroy (Lord ilardinge). Ho : supported Indian' self-gdveruinent under the. Crown, He .strongly .-criticised Bri- > 4ish- policy in Turkey , and' Persia. . SOME GRIEVANCES. , . (Rec. March 2-1, 11.50 p.m.) ' , Delhi, March 24. ~ ' The President, of tho All-India;. League ■■■ declared that if ..Sir, Edward .Greyi remained arbiter of British foreign policy. Rrissirt would swallow the Asiitic .Moslem States, detrimentally to the British Empire iind the East. ... ■' The League requested the revision of the civil servico competitive system, so as to enable the Government to recruit raore equally from tho various .sections of the Ring's subjects. It also advocated, .the separation of executive from judicial functions, and urged that British action / should bo taken with regard to the Mace/d'onian butcheries. .Dissatisfaction was expressed at the British . sympathy with tho 'Balkan .Allies.' . ItVwas .urged that Britain should persuade. Russia to evacu- . ate' Northern Persia.'.