INDIA.

Grey River Argus, 3 April 1922, Page 5

INDIA.

INDIAN PRESS CENSORSHIP. A PRETENCE OF RELAXING IT. [A. and N. Z. Cable Association] DELHI, March 31. A certain amount of opposition from influential Indians, who arc convinced the country is not sufficiently settle! for such a measure, the Indian Legislative Assembly has passed a Bill repealing the Press Act, ami the Newspaper Incitement to Offences Act. The most remarkable thing in the de bate was the attack made by Razi Ali on the journalists in India. He bitterlv complained against sensational items being sent from India to the English Press by adventurous correspondents, who claimed to know more of India than the Government and the Legislature did. He did not ask the Government to institute a censorship, but he thought the Telegraph Act ought to be revised so as to prevent any Prcsj correspondent from dictating to India. This member added that, so far, India had bet'll ruled in the nam? ot the King, by Parliament, on the one hand, and by the Government of India on the other; bet there had arisen anori-cr class, the Press correspondents, whose writings caused incalculable damage to the interests of the country. He further piot' -te<l against what he described as the infamous action of the people who are using disreputable method.; in trying to prejudice India’s cause before the Britis.li public and to keep India in in i’pi’tual bondage. The Viceroy prorogm J both Legis-