COMING TOGETHER
AN INDIAN MEETING
TO SECURE UNITED ACTION
PROPOSED ROUND-TABLE
CONFERENCE.
(I'NIIIO J>««s i-SSCCIAHON.—COPTItiaiI'.)
i (Received January 17, 10 a.m.)
DELHI, 16th. January.
A conference-! of political leaders in Bombay was held in private, with the object of securing united action. It was attended by over ' two-hundred representatives of all shades of opinion throughout India. Sir Sank&ran Na-ir presided. The Pundit Malaviya declared that the non-co-operation movement was spreading as the result of the Government's mistakes and its policy of wholesale depression, which he declared was unjustifiable. A resolution was drafted, after a long discussion, with a view to securing a further round-table conference, which it was thought would be acoeptahje both to <ji»ndhi and to the Government, but Gandhi refused to subscribe to the resolution, and demanded as a preliminary, the S-elease of all agitators and a, change of Government policy. .A number of speeches by prominent'leaders followed. Eventually a sub-committee was appointed to re-draft the resolutions, and the conference was adjourned.
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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 13, 17 January 1922, Page 7
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