PROTESTS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1727, 23 February 1912, Page 2

PROTESTS.

AGAINST REMOVING THE

CAPITAL OF INDIA

{By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright.)

(Per Press Association.)

Loudon, February 22. Lord Curzon" raised a debate in tho House of Lords, on tho removal of the capital of India to Delhi, lho step had been taken on the initiative of the Viceroy (Lord Hardmge), who, he said, had only been in. India tor a few months, and had been dono without consultation with those responsible for the government of India for 25 years. Not a single representative liodv in India favoured the policy. and" he feared the removal of the capital would be serious. Ho condemned tho new policy, as the Bengal agitation was dead.

Url Crewe, replying, said, without deprecating Calcutta, everybody •view that tho Government was carried on there for a short period of the year, and for tho rest of the year in Simla. Tho benefits of changing the capital were greater than the damage sustained.