FURTHER IMPROVEMENT

Hawera Star, Volume L, 30 July 1930, Page 5

FURTHER IMPROVEMENT

SITUATION IN INDIA V INDICATIONS OF WEARINESS GLOOMY OUTLOOK IN BOMBAY. RUGBY, July 28. 1 jie uovernmeat oi India's review of uie position. stiovvs that in the northwest frontier provinces the situation m iv azirnstan conwnues to improve. A preliminary settlement with the iShabi K’hel and the Kikarai has been successfully concluded, these sections having given security in rifles for good behaviour and the liquidation of any line the Government may impose. The Jirgas and other sections; except the Nazar Khel who are procrastinating, have also ooine m with a view to a settlement aui are depositing rifles as security. On the Teshawar border contingents of Afridis have been moving about the Orakgai country, following the decision of the AJridi jirga to organise raids against the Government pending compliance wih the demands of the tribes. The internal .situation continues, on the whofe, to improve. The number of under-tiial and convicted persons of the Peshawar district connected with the recent agitation, who have been \ released on giving satisfactory undertakings for the future, now exceed 180. In Jannu City the picketing of liquor shops by women continues and the rural situation in the district is somewhat less satisfactory. In other parts of lidia. there have been several clasles between police and volunteers, | maiilv arising out of the picketing, but none was on a large scale. following is a summary of the generd position in the provinces. A definte decline in the movement in Bengd. Madras, Behar, Orissa, Assam aid Delhi, hut student activity may gve fresh encouragement; in the Punjib a marked improvement during the last month, hut the Sikh situation is still unstable; in the Bombay Presidency signs of some improvement continue ; the position in Bombay Oit.v is little changed ; the movement has_ had serious effects on trade and business and the industrial outlook is gloomy; the movement has gained force in the central provinces, where it was late in establishing itself on a. firm basis, and the situation there has definitely deteriorated . Viewing the situation as a. whole there are some indications of weariness and of counter-propaganda having definite results. The Viceroy’s address to the Legislature has been favourably receded in the Press and lias undoubtedly strengthened moderate opinion in favour of constitutional methods.

ROUND-TABLE CONFERENCE

MATTERS OF PROCEDURE. RUGBY, July 28. The Indian round-table conference will be held at St. James’ Palace at the conclusion of the Imperial Confer- ■ ence, but the Secretary for India (Captain Wedgwood Benn) said in the House of Commons to-day that he was not yet able to state what would lie the personnel of the delegations. A supplementary question as to whether fa statement would he made on this '’Subject before the House rises on Friday was answered affirmatively. Captain Benn was asked as to the proceed tiro to be followed before pressing the proposals to Parliament for an amendment of the Government of India Act. He recalled that in the correspondence of October last between the chairman of the Statutory Commission and the Prime Minister it _ was contemplated that procedure by a joint Parliamentary committee would still be appropriate for the examination of tlic proposals finally laid before Parliament as a result of the conference. It was oromature to consider whether it might be necessary or desirable to modify in any respect the procedure originally contemplated until the results of the round-table conference were known.