INDIAN ANTAGONISM

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 2 April 1927, Page 7

INDIAN ANTAGONISM

TO BRITISH RULE. BECOMES AN OBSESSION. MAHARAJAH DROPS POLITICS. BY CABLE- PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT. DELHI, April 1. The Maharajah of Burdwan, India’s delegate to the Imperial Conference, is resigning from politics in India, because, he declares, he has no sympathy with them.

The Maharajah says the distrust of British rule has become such an obsession, with many Indians as to lead them to wish to get rid of it without considering the consequences to those who, i.ike himself, believed in the British and their honesty of purpose. The only alternative was to resign. The Maharajah is gojng to Europe. AN OPTIMISTIC REVIEW. BY LORD BIRKENHEAD. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. March 31. Lord Birkenhead, Secretary for India, in the House of Lords, last night gave a generallv optimistic review of the situation in India. Referring to the demand for expediting the statutory inquiry into the workin o- of the new' constitution, due in, 1929, at the end of ten years’ probationary period, he said that if the favourable auguries of the past few months were borne out, and it became apparent that the constitution was accepted a.g a means of collaboration in securing better government for India, lie did "not apprehend that either the Government or Parliament would insist on the full period of probation. Regarding the position, of Indians in South Africa, Lord Birkenhead said the settlement reached between the South African and Indian Governments did credit to both, and marked the beginning of inti mule and cordial co-op-eration. , . India, which, in his view, could not fail to benefit from the stabilisation of the rupee, had for the fourth year in succession a. substantial surplus,, with another in prospect, an evidence of sound finance. . lord Reading, ex-Viceroy, referred to the immense improvement in India’s position. At this moment, he declared, everything seemed to point to the. successful development of constitutional government, which, bearing in mind the position from which it started, showed a remarkable advance.