BRITISH INDIA

Evening Star, Issue 19710, 10 November 1927, Page 4

BRITISH INDIA

SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT COMMISSION OF INQUIRY. (British Official News.)' Press Association—By Wireless—Copyright. RUGBY, November 8. The'Government of India Act, 1919, provides for a commission to inquire into the working of the system of Government, the growth of education, and the development of representative institutions in Britsli India and matters connected therewith. Under this Act provision is made for the appointment of a Commission at the expiration of 10 years aftcr_ the passing of that Act. The appointment forthwith, instead of waiting till 1919. will necessitate a short amending Bill to make possible this change. In the House of Commons Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Secretary for War, stated that Ids visit to India was in no sense an official inspection of Britsh troops, for whom the Indian Government was solely responsible. There were many important questions of finance, organisation, and administration ; for example, the future progress and mechanisation of the various units of the British Army, which depended for a successful solution upon n common policy agreed with the Indian, authorities. Ho hoped from Ids visit to India and from discussion with various authorities to be able to make some progress in dealing with these and similar matters.