INDIAN AFFAIRS

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 April 1933, Page 7

INDIAN AFFAIRS

A RIVER DISASTER. (BY CABLE--PBEBB ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] CALCUTTA, April 11. Sixteen were drowned early in the morning, in a boat disaster on the Hooghly, near Howrah Bridge. Two boats crowded with Indians were crossing the river, and were caught in a swirl and capsized. EX-OFFICERS FIGHT. CALCUTTA, April 11. Two were killed, a father and son, and many were injured in a clash between retired Indian officers of the Indian Army near* Jhelum, Punjab, wherein the combatants and their servants used guns, revolvers and knives. Armed police were called in to restore order. BREEZE IN LORDS (Rec. April 12, 1 p.m.) LONDON, April 11. There were heated passages in the House of Lords between Lord Hals bury and Lord Hailsham, before the House approved the names of the Lords Members of the Joint Committee on India.

Lord Halsbury declared that the views of the Committeemen were known beforehand, and there was bound to be a Government majority. Lord Hailsham replied that Lord Halsbury’s attack was an insult to the Government and the members of the committee. Nobody else believed for a moment that the Government would in any way trick the House. He added: Lord Halsbury seems to have brought the traditions of low-class attorneys intor the atmosphere of the House of Lords. Lord Halsbury: I will not withdraw a word. Tricks have been adopted by the Government, not by me. It has deliberately chosen a committee on which a majority for its policy would be a certainty. The Government’s motion was carried by 65 votes to 13.