THE REBELS IN INDIA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 3104, 23 December 1921, Page 5

THE REBELS IN INDIA.

LARGE NUMBERS SURRENDER, NUMEROUS ARRESTS BEING MADE. Bv Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received December 23, 0.25 a.ui. DELHI, Dec. 21. Thirteen hundred rebels surrendered to Gurkhas at Edvainia Post. Numerous arrests are, still being made everywhere. ZOO being made in Calcutta alone. Of 263 tried on Monday, 255 wore convicted.—A. and N.Z. cable. OFFER TO EXTREMISTS, PROPOSAL FOR CONFERENCE. Received December 23, 9.45 a.m. CALCUTTA, Dee, 21. Lord Ronaklshay, Governor ot Bengal, delivered an important speech at the meeting of the Legislative Council in Calcutta. He said Lord Reading's promise to receive a deputation of representative leaders had introduced a new factor. It was generally agreed that, a truce was an essential preliminary to any conference. If he was -aiMi (I that the extremist leaders were prepared to take action to this end, he would he prepared to recommend the Government to take action in consonance with ihe aliereil situation. Nothing had exasperated feeling so much as the non-co-operators’ attitude towards the Prince's visit. If tin l boycott was abandoned, and lhe hartal called olf, ho was prepared to recommend Ihe Government, to stay its hands so far as it was compatible with the public safety. If the non co operators cried a. hah, in their hostile activities he would recommend dial the pending prosecutions he suspended, and that those charged he released. —A. and N.Z. cable.