SITUATION IN INDIA

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 125, 29 May 1930, Page 9

SITUATION IN INDIA

HOUSE OF LORDS INQUIRY

SUPPORT FOR- GOVERNMENT

British Official Wireless. (Received 29th May, 11 a.m.) > RUGBY, 2"Bth May. In tho House of Lords, Lord Peel called for a statement on the situation in India. Tho fullest support should, he said, be given to the Government of India to crush and end disorders which seemed to be organised from a common centre. He suggested that instead of arresting leaders in particular disturbances it was time to strike at the centre of the disturbances —the Congress Committee itself—and that a greater effort bo made to counter the flood of misrepresentation of British policy in. the vernacular Press. Lord Beading said that what was new and serious about the present disturbances was the evidence that an organisation of civil disturbance had been set up. Civil disobedience could not be tolerated, and the Government must put forth all the weapons at its command to break it. Earl Russell, Under-Secretary for India, having surveyed the situation in various centres, said that there was no question of the loyalty of the Indian Army, and he paid a tribute to the work of th Indian police who frequently were pelted by brickbats and insulted and not allowed to protect themselves except in the last resort. The Government l had shown . the utmost limits of patience and forbearance in quelling disorders and had resorted to firearms only when conditions made it absolutely necessary. Earl Russell paid a tribute to the Viceroy, who had shown immense patience and had done nothing that could be regarded as provocative. Tho Government had assured him that he had their full and unstinted support. ■■■•"• ■