RULE IN INDIA
PARLIAMENTAR QUESTIONS. GOVERNMENT’S INTENTIONS. NO STATEMENT YET. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received February 17, 10.52 a.m. RUGBY, Feb. 16. It is authoritatively stated that no decision has been reached regarding the despatch of a Parliamentary delegation to India to continue the work of the Round Table Conference, and rumours regarding the ultimate constitution of the delegation are therefore clearly speculative. Captain Wedgwood Benn stated in the House of Commons that he was unable yet to make a precise statement of the Government’s plans. Asked if he had any information regarding the attitude of the Congress Party towards the conference proposals, Captain Benn said he could add nothing to what had appeared in the Press.
In reply to a further question, Captain Benn said lie understood there was to be an interview between the Viceroy and Gandhi.
Questioned regarding the present position in respect of the armed rising in Burma, Captain Benn said the main outbreak had been dealt with, but there were still a considerable number of rebels in the forests, who had broken up into small gangs and were being dealt with as systematically as possible. It was still uncertain whether the leader, Sava San, i( alive or dead.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 66, 17 February 1931, Page 7
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