WHAT INDIA WANTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1711, 30 December 1919, Page 5

WHAT INDIA WANTS.

CONGRESS OPENED AT^AM RITSAA MARTIAL LAW Co|l)|iNEl). By Electric Australian-New Zioalanu --able 'Association, , DELHI; Rec. =26. V Tolak Nohru presided at the 1 ,8?tli India Congress, which opened at He said they had assembled in deep mourn- y ing for the cruel muider of faundßAis' of their brothers. Lmce the last congrefer war J had ended and peace had come pasCally, ffi but the pledges given had proved i .Kupty 1 words. President Wilson’s Fourteen Fomta fi were dkud, and “ vae victis ” wan tae g order oi the day., Prussianism hod.; been | crushed, but militarism was enthroned, | Russia, though desirous of peace, whs hot given a respite, and the fate of Turkey .mug in the balance. Ireland and Egypt were made to feel the might of the Bnti|h Lmpire. India’s first fruits were the -lloiV 4 | taU Bills and mailiai law. 'The speakerdealt with the unrest in the Punjab, dating . Horn Lord Curaon’s Vice-Royalty, TobWeteer-i. by continuous lepression and y terrorism . down to the drdaiatiou of martial law, af.d 1 .no appointment of the Hunter T: Telak Nehru added: “■ WhateVh 1 ’ WSf-Lfl; [lie findings ol the Hunter ii‘garding the initial necessity of martial laiv, R, there was not the slightest doubt, on ine admission made by official witnesses before the committee, that there was no justifies.- . lion for keeping it through the length of T time during which the horrors were con tinuing.” He declared that the' Indians si sought justice at the hands of the British % democracy. On the answer of that do-. •' mocracy depended the future goodwill of i the people of India. Telak, referring to the Reform Bill, said that it was not based on the wishes of the Indian people, but it gave them some poweis and opened i avenues in the services which hitherto- had' v been closed to,the Indians. Their cleat . duty was to make the most of what was . j given, and to press for what was due. He-..,. ' demanded commissions for the Indians, in , iho Navy and Army, and a satisfactory solution ofl the Khalyat question, and. the re-adjustment of the status of Indiana ; overseas. - - r T[