INDIA’S FUTURE
ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE PROPOSALS QUESTIONS IH COMMONS (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, February 16. (Received February 17, at noon.) It is authoritatively stated that no decision has been reached regarding the despatch of a parliamentary delegation to India to continue tlio worn of the Round Table Conference, and rumours regarding the ultimate constitution ot the delegation, therefore, are clearly speculative. Captain Wedgwood Benn stated in the House of Commons that ho was unable yet to make a precise statement on tho Government’s plans. Asked if h© bad any information regarding the attitude of the Congress Party towards tho conference proposals. Captain Wedgwood Benn said he could add nothing to what had appeared in tho Press. . In reply to a further question Captain Wedgwood Benn said ho understood that there was to be an interview between the Viceroy and Gandhi. Questioned regarding tho present position in respect to the armed rising in Burma, Captain Wedgwood Benn said the main outbreak had been dealt with, but there was still a considerable number of rebels in the forests who had been broken up into small gangs and were being dealt with as systematically as possible. It was still uncertain whether the leader, Saya San, was alive or dead.
DAV OF MOURNING,
NO DISTURBANCES,
CALCUTTA, February 16. (Received February 17, at 12.10 p.nO To-dav was observed by Indians of all creeds, ‘rich and poor, as a day of silence in memory of Motilal Nehru s death. Calcutta was transformed into a city of tbo dead. It was the niost complete hartal for many years. Numerous processions in the afternoon, bearing: Congress Hags, converged on the maidan, where Mi' «). M. Sen Gupta addressed a meeting of 100.000. refer ring in feeling terms to the irreparable loss to India by the death of this selfless patriot in this crisis. No police wore present, and perfect order prevailed. . All India is waiting anxiously the resuit of the conversations between the yiceroy and Gandhi,
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Evening Star, Issue 20720, 17 February 1931, Page 9
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