WILL FINISH TASK

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 115, 8 February 1935, Page 11

WILL FINISH TASK

Mr. Baldwin on British

Rule in India

NO CRAVEN WITHDRAWAL

(British Official Wireless.) Sir Samuel Hoare said that the .Rugby, February 6. Public interest in the India Bill has beeh further increased during recent .weeks by the, series of broadcast talks on the proposals by leading protagonists of differing viewpoints. The series was concluded last night by Mr. Baldwin. He emphasised that the reforms proposed were the direct and natural issue of the settled policy and long-matured judgment of successive British Governments on the merits of the case. It was utter misrepresentation of them to say that they were dictated by a weak desire to. compromise with agitation. They proposed to make more precise, the measure of autonomy, which was already firmly established by convention. As in the case of the Dominions they were proceeding by carefully regulated transfers of power. Owing to the peculiar conditions of the country India might well take longer than the Dominions to reach the final goal. The British raj was not cravenly withdrawing from India. It would remain there, with such modifications of form as circumstances might require, until its work was complete and its presence no longer necessary.

BAN TO BE REMOVED

Frontier Red Shirts London, February 6. The Delhi correspondent of “The Times” says that a motion urging the removal of the official ban on the North-West Frontier Red Shirts was carried in the Legislative Assembly by 83 votes to 46. This is the Government’s third defeat since the Assembly opened. .Supporters of the motion claimed that the Red Shirt organisation was formed for social uplift, was non-violent, and there was no justification for restricting its activities.

Mr. Metcalfe, Foreign Secretary, repudiated the argument, and declared he had specific instances of violence, and the preaching of racial hatred and rebellion among border tribesmen.