INDIAN TERMS

Grey River Argus, 8 September 1930, Page 5

INDIAN TERMS

FOR SETTLEMENT I Refused by British (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.') i (Received September 7 at 5.5 p.m.) I i DELHI, September 6. i ’ The. talks which have been proceed- ( ( ing for the sixth month between two | Moderates, .Mr M- R. Haynkar and Sir . Te.j Bahadur Sapru. and Mahatma J Gandhi and the other prominent Naj tional Congress leaders, who are in gaol, in an endeavour to effect a settle'merit of the Indian political situation, J have definitely failed. | The Government refuses to accept ‘the National Congress terms of compromise. The Congress terms for calling off the civil disobedience movement were: i (1) The recognition of India’s i right to secede from the British EmP ire * ’ (2) A complete National Government, including the control of defence. • (3) The right to refer to an independent tribunal such British claims and concessions (including the “so-' [called public debt of India”) as may seem unjust to India’s people. It is 1 emphasised, however, that the picket- , ' ing of the liquor shops and the cloth ■ shops, and the manufacture of salt by j the Indian people would continue. ■ Other demands of the National Con- • gross include: The release of all the I civil resisters, and political prisoners, I and the remission of the property that ’ has been confiscated under the Salt | Act, the Dress Act and the Revenue | .Acts; the remission of the fines and securities that have boon taken from convicted resisters and political pri- i 1 soners, and the repeal of all of the 1 I Ordinances.