RULE IN INDIA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 307, 25 November 1932, Page 7

RULE IN INDIA.

PROBLEMS OF FRANCHISE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Nov. 23. Franchise questions were further considered at tho Indian Round Table Conference to-day. In regard to the depressed electorate for the Federal Assembly, the Conference agreed to accept the recommendation of the Franchise Committee that a differential qualification of mere' literacy should bo adopted. With the ordinary qualification proposed by the Franchise Committee for the general electorate of the Assembly, this wouid enfranchise at least 2 per cent, of the depressed class population, which the committee considered adequato as it proposed tho enfranchisement of only 3 per cent, of the general population. Under the Poona Pact the depressed classes will be entitled to 8 per cent, of the general Hindu scats in the Federal Legislature. The Conference expressed itself in favour of spscial representation of labour, commerce, and landlords in the Federal Assembly. Subject to a satisfactory; solution of the question of small minorities, it was agreed that the British Indian section of the Federal Upper House should be elected by tlie Provincial Legislative Councils by single transferable vote as previously proposed by tho Federal Structure Committee of the Conference and supported by the franchise committee, but tho Moslem representatives indicated that they did not wish to commit themselves to using the method of a single transferable vote until they know the probable effect upon the communal proportions in the whole House. It was generally agreed that special interests should not be represented in the Upper House. The session was adjourned to give delegates an opportunity by informal discussions to come to agreement on tho question of the size of the Central Legislature which indirectly raises the question of the communal position in the two Houses.

FURTHER TERRORISM. NEW PHASE DEVELOPS. CALCUTTA, Nov. 23. The latest phase of terrorism is attacks on individuals suspected of informing the police of the' movements of revolutionaries. Four cases occurred in a few days in Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa. The Victims were shot on lonely roads, two of them fatally.