INDIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2378, 19 December 1908, Page 5

INDIA.

RESULT OF GOVERNMENT VIGOR. SEDITIOUS SOCIETIES DISSOLVING. United Press Association. Copyright CALCUTTA, Dec. 17. Ten of the most prominent of the offenders .arrested, as cabled on the loth, have been sent to gaol in different places, including Agra, Lucknow, Basse and Manderlay. The summary justice has produced ■a marked effect in Bengal. . Several leading men in Dacca, who .openly supported sedition, have voluntarily deputationed the commissioner, ask- - *0 ng how best to assist the Government. The secret societies are dissolving. Revolvers have been found a'%,■ buried in the mud at Hoogli river.

THE GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS. A WIDE SCHEME OF CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM. (Received Dec. 18, 10.17 p.m.) ;u LONDON,, Dec. 17. Viscount Morley, in the House of Lords, and Mr. T. R. Buchanan, in the House of Commons, made state’ments revealing the Government’s wide scheme of constitutional reform . for India. Viscount Morley said 'that a Royal Commission to enquire into the international relations be-, tween the Governments of India and all its subordinate and co-ordinate parts would report in February or March. Viscount Morley said he dis- ' agreed with those who were making the Indian sky darker than it really is. He admitted that there were for- ' midable difficulties, but they must be regarded with the sense of proportion, iS^and,. with Lord Alinto’s intrepid coolness, there was no fear of a general rising, but rather, the risk of a general panic due'to'Anarchists ‘ terrorism.