INDIAN REFORM
DIFFICULTIES OF CMWISSIOK Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyrigut SYDNEY, April 13. (Received April 13, at 10.15 a.m.) Mr Gardiner (a retired police superintendent of the United Provinces of North India), who is on a visit to Australia, said there was a feeling throughout India, that it would be impossible for the Simon Commission to submit a report which would be satisfactory to all factions.
The commission had met with a great deal of hostility through a number of educated agitators working through the country endeavoring to arouse the people to extreme action, and no one could say what would happen when the report was made. He added that an almost insuperable obstacle to a successful form of administration was the intense caste bitterness between the Hindus and Mohammedans. Many people were of opinion that on this rock of caste hatred would founder the hopes of an administrate acceptable* ia «Jl,
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Evening Star, Issue 19840, 13 April 1928, Page 6
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