CAMPAIGN OF HATRED

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 138, 8 December 1931, Page 7

CAMPAIGN OF HATRED

EVERYTHING BRITISH

BOYCOTT INTENSIFIED

CONGRESS RESOLUTION

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After six months of comparative peace, Congressmen in Bengal havai decided to revive their campaign 06 hatred ofi everything British. A] special session of the Bengal Proving cial Conference adopted a resolution urging an intensive boycott of British goodsj banks, insurance companies^ steamship and other concerns; a boy« cott of foreign cloth, and prohibition) of liquor and intoxicating drugs. ■; Events throughout India are rap« idly developing, and following the) Bengal Congress decision, the United Provinces Congress Committee haaj challenged the Government by autrn orising Congress representatives inj the districts of Raebareli, Etawahj Cawnpore and Unao to start a non* rent, campaign . among the peasant^ under the guise of championing theiij rights. ■ ■ "-"'■ y■ - :-;'- ■ '■■"

The Congress has exploited thq agrarian situation in the United Prch vinces. It has demanded the remis* sion of all rents, and has refused taj compromise with the Government* whose measures to meet the nev^ threat against law and order will b$ put into operation immediately; ;