INDIAN REFORMS

Northern Advocate, 7 February 1928, Page 9

INDIAN REFORMS

ENVOYS’ OBJECTIVE

CONSTITUTIONAL PROGRESS. I MISTRUST ALLAYED. RUGBY, February 5. Sir John Simon and other members of the Statutory Commission arrived at Bombay yesterday. Sir John Simon issued a statement to the Press in the following terms: — “My colleagues and I have set foot in India fully impressed with the responsibility of our work and with the resolve to expend all our energy and •goodwill to its discharge. “The constitutional progress of Brir tish India essentially depends on the friendly and sincere co-operation of the Indian and ■ British representatives.

“It is manifest, however, that there exists at the moment in some quarters a widespread ‘ misunderstanding as to what the Commission is setting out to do and uncertainty respecting the methods it proposes to employ.

“We shall make it our business without delay to 'remove thesh misapprehenions and after reaching Delhi and becoming more acquainted with the actual situation, we intend to make a statement of the proposed procedure, which should leave no ground for the suspicions which have unfortunately arisen. “We (mean to take the fullest op-, portunity open to us for consultation with Indian representatives who are willihg to meet us, both during our preliminary visit and when we return for our longer visit in October.* ’

1 RIOTOUS OUTBREAKS,

SUIT SOVIET'S BOOK.

(Received 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, February o

The Riga correspondent of xhe “Daily Mail" says that the Soviet newspapers are intensely interested in the reports of disturbances in India. Despatches from India arc published with such headlines as “'Revolt Against Britain" and “India's Masses Awakening. ’ ’ The Communist International has telegraphed to India assuring the rioters of their warm support.—Sun.