NEW INDIAN VICEROY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 119, 21 April 1936, Page 7

NEW INDIAN VICEROY.

RECEPTION AT DELHI. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 18. A Royal Salute of 31 guns announced* the arrival at Delhi to-day of the new Viceroy, Lord Linlithgow, who, with his entourage, travelled in a special train from Bombay. Great crowds gathered to welcome him and he was enthusiastically cheered as he drove to the Viceroy’s house, where, in Durbar Hall, a distinguished gathering, including the Commander-in-Chibf, high officials of the Government of India, ruling Princes, diplomatic representatives and members of the Central Legislature awaited him. After Lord Linlithgow had been sworn in, the Vice-Regal flag was unfurled and a Royal Salute of 31 guns announced his assumption of office. In the course of his broadcast address to all the people of India, the Viceroy said it would be his duty throughout the anxious period ahead of them to tender such counsel as might seem to him to be within his proper function and calculated to assist in the discharge of the responsibilities of citizenship under representative government. Speaking to the millions of newlyenfranchised voters, the Viceroy said : “In no circumstances can it be for me to advise you how to vote. Leaders of political parties, by whatever name they are known, which are competing within the orbit of the Constitution for the suffrage of provincial electorates may rely implicitly upon me never wittingly to use language calculated to prejudice their lawful interests.”