TIME FOR FIRMNESS

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 180, 28 April 1931, Page 9

TIME FOR FIRMNESS

Britain’s India Policy TOLERANCE FLOUTED Punjab Governor Decides GRAVE FRONTIER UNREST By Telegraph—Press Assn.— Copyright. (Rec. April 27, 8 p.m.) Delhi, April 27. Replying to an address from landowners, Sir Geoffrey de Montmorency, Governor of th® Punjab, declared that the answer to the Government s recent policy of toleration had been a renewal of hostile demonstrations and an incitement to violence. The time had come to control it, and the Government would undertake the task without further ado. A grave situation prevails on the North-west Frontier, and the Administration may have to ask the Central Government for power to prevent the spread of hostile subversive movements. Trouble is. being caused by Red Shirts and the Youthful League at Charsadda, who are openly anti-British. DANGER OF RIOTING Appeals Made to Natives FESTIVAL ON WEDNESDAY Calcutta, April 26. Bengal, in common with the rest of the provinces of India, is uneasy regarding the outcome of the Mohammedan festival at Barkin on Wednesday next, and appeals are being made by public men and responsible journals to Mohammedans to celebrate the day by the slaughter of goats, and to avoid the sacrifice of cows, which are sacred to the Hindus. The latter also are exhorted to refrain from playing provocative music in the neighbourhood of mosques while their occupants are engaged in prayers. The lesson of the recent savagery at Cawnpore shows how suddenly these troubles develop, making the task of the authorities in keeping order most difficult with a limited police force. The most dangerous centres seem to be in the United Provinces.