THE SEDITION MOVEMENT.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 134, 8 June 1907, Page 4

THE SEDITION MOVEMENT.

MR MORLEY JUSTIFIES HIS ACTION.

INDIA'S DR. CLIFFORD

(Received June 8, 8.36 a.m.)

LONDON, June 7.

Iv the House of Commons, Mr Morley, discussing the disorders in India and the stories circulated by a setcion of the native press as to the British being responsible for the plague through having poisoned the wells, upheld coercion, under existing regulations, in lieu of prosecutions, which only served to advertise the agitators.

The Times's Simla correspondent says that sedition is restricted to the educated middle class. Agitators are systematically canvassing the villages and trying to capture the sympathy of the native army. There is no indication of the army's coquetting with the movement. The agitators did not anticipate Mr Morley's strength of purpose. Some of them now suggest three months' incubation of fresh" schemes. The situation displays considerable gravity.

English newspapers warmly approve Mr Morley's speech and action.

Sir Henry Cotton, Liberal Member for Nottingham East, who for many years was employed in the Indian Civil Service, disagreed with the punishing of Laj Patrai, who, he said, was only a religious agitator, occupying the same position in-the Punjab, as Dr. Clifford in England.