INDIA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 19 April 1922, Page 5

INDIA.

MEMORIAL DISFIGURED

EXTREMIST ACTIVITY INCREASING. BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPIHIGHT DELHI, April 17. The war memorial at Calcutta, unveiled by the Prince of Wales in December, has been disfigured by an unknown person. The tablets bearing the names of the Calcutta men who lost their lives during the war and the sides of the memorial were blackened with charcoal. The "Black Hole" memorial, erected by Lord Curzon, was treated similarly. There are many signs .that extremist activity is increasing in the central provinces. Congress decided that municipal committees shotild control municipal administration, thus transferring authority from Government institutions to non-co-operation bodies. The president of the Congress, in a speech, outlined a plan for capturing the committees-, local boards, district boards, municipalities, and even the provincial councils, with the object of obstructing all work if the right was not conceded. He1 appealed to all to concentrate on the1 reduction of expenditure as the only] solution and remedy of the conflict be-1 tween the governing and the governed.