ANGRY BENGALESE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 17 September 1924, Page 6

ANGRY BENGALESE

FALSE ALARM CAUSES

TROUBLE

DAS’ “FATUOUS POLICY.”

CALCUTTA, August 30. - „ excitement lias been caused in Bengal by the report that a leading “Moderate” member of the Legislative Council was escorted to a meeting of that body by the police and intimidated into voting for the Government. Investigation has shown that actually the member was besieged in his own house by extremists, w-ho refused to allow- him to attend the meeting, so that certain measure might go in their fovour. Police who offered to help the member were hustled. The Daily-- Mail bitterly attacks Lord Olivier (Secretary of 'State for India), who, it says, “seems nervously anxious that the feelings of seditionmongers shall not he hurt, even by hard words.” The paper asserts that Lord Olivier attacked Mr. Justice MeCardie (in dissociating himself from the judge’s comments in the Dyer case), obviously in order to placate the Swarajist leader, Mr. Das, on whom he had already lavished ridiculous praise. The incident, adds the Daily Alail, bears an ominous resemblance to tlie withdrawal of the prosecution of Campbell, the. Communist editor, who was charged with incitement to mutiny. Air. Justice AlcCardie says that judicial etiquette prevents his replying to Lord Olivier’s note, hut if necessarylie ivill make a clear and conclusive reply at an appropriate moment.