INDIA IN A BAD WAY.

Grey River Argus, 31 May 1922, Page 5

INDIA IN A BAD WAY.

AN EXODUS OF WHITES. IMI*ERTALIST'S ADMISSIONS. [A. and N. Z. Cabl« Association! SYDNEY, May 30. Captain Lf touche of the Royal Indian .Marine has arrived here, after 31 years' service in India. He says that there is no doubt India is in a bad way. The worst feature of the situation is the general exodus of Whites. Slowly, but surely, India is losing its most trusted servants, who are being replaced in wholesale manner by Indians, mainly Baous from Bengal and Madras. They are clever and able to pass any examination with difficulty, but when it comes to utilising knowledge. as officials, they are failures. The Natives had learned to trust the Whites to execute impartially their public duties, but the same confidence was not shown in the integrity of the, Indians replacing them. The Natives, who love litigation, employ every wile to avoid appearing before the Indian magistrates. They squander money in taking cases to tht' highest courts so Hint a White judge can try them. Captain Latouche considers that a general upheaval in India is improbable, as there are so many' different race castes, that a concerted movement is out of the question. Another Anglo-Indian, in a letter to the Press, deplores the fact that Mrs Besant's visit to Australian includes pushing a campaign securing India’s freedom, independence and self-determ-ination. Ho says: —The Indians have already all three to greater extent than the inhabitants of any other civilised country. Nowhere is such freedom from . annoying restrictions. After weightily pressing the difficulties surounding British administration, he says: —Australia is too young a country to understand Indian questions; the bulk of the enormous population of India is content, and has no desire for a change of rulers. No one knows better thr u Mrs Besant and her followers that the mines they arc so assiduously laying will, if exploded, lead to such a holocaust that India will be thrown back centuries, and those who suffer most will be the poor misguided illiterates, who never enjoyed such independence as under British rule.