IN INDIA

Hokitika Guardian, 19 January 1932, Page 5

IN INDIA

SITUATION NOW QUIET.

TWO MISSIONARIES ARRESTED

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Telegraph.—Co byright.)

(Received this ua\ at 9.20 a.m)

CALCUTTA, January 18

Arrests continue, under the various special ordinances passed to forestall a revival of disobedience, but, on tlie who.e, India is quieter than it lias been lor years past. '1 lie foreign goous boycott has definitely failed. The latest development of the India Government’s campaign lor the suppression of illegial activities, is tim restriction placed on British missionaries who are evincing active sympathy with the Congress movement. r l wo have been arrested, and a third deported. Gold is being rushed into Britain, and nearly three miljons sterling worth le.t Bombay by the last mail, which is the third largest shipment since Britain went off the gold standard.

PICKETING AT BOMBAY. ( (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 16. The latest reports from India confirm that a steady improvement continues. Regarding the position oil the North West Frontier there is a iso nil improvement, despite isolated incidents in Kashmir, while in the rest of India, the situation is easier generally, except in Bombay, where some difficult points in regard to the question of the picketing have arisen,