INDIAN CLEAVAGE.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 186, 22 July 1920, Page 3

INDIAN CLEAVAGE.

AMRITSAR REPORT. EUROPEANS SUPPORT DYER. WOMEN ADI) FUEL TO THE FIRE. Simla, July 10. The result of the Amritsar discussion has been received in India with mixed feelings. The whole of the Europeans still openly sympathise with General Dyer, while the Indians just as largely execrate him. The discussion has generally increased racial feeling, and Press opinion generally follows the racial cleavage. Indian feeling is still wrongly against Sir Michael O’Dwyer, and English interest is largely concentrated on General Dyer. Mr. G. S. Montagu’s general attitude, and his and Air. Winston Churchill’s speeches appear to he bitterly resented by the majority of ue European residents in India. Manv military men are of the opinion that Mr. Churchill’s orders will make the position almost impossible for the soldier who is called upon to repress civil disturbances in the future. At the same time, while in certain quarters there is a strong feeling of relief that the incident has been officially disposed of, many English women m India are still insisting on some recognition of General Dyer's services, which they maintain saved many of them from consequences too terrible to contemplate, and their attitude, 'though easily comprehensible, is only adding fuel to the fire. •