INDIAN REFORM

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 19 April 1934, Page 7

INDIAN REFORM

THE CHURCHILL CHARGES TAMPERING WITH EVIDENCE Biitish Official Wireless' RUGBY. 17th April.' The Committee of Privileges which which been summoned to examine charges that attempts were made to tamper with the evidence tendered by the Manchester Chamber of Commerce to the Joint Select Committee on Indian Reform, will meet on Thursday. It is not an ad hoc body appointed to consider a specific complaint, but is a committee consisting of ten members elected by the. House of Commons at the beginning of each session, and representing all parties. The committee soltles its own procedure, and has power to call for witnesses and papers. It is assumed that the principal witnesses will he Fir Samuel Hoare, Mr Winston Churchill, and Mr S. S. ilainmersiey, Lancashire Meimnber of Parliament.

It is understood that the meetings of tlie Joint Select Committee on Indian Reform will not be delayed by the proceedings before the Committee of Privileges. STATES PROTECTION RILL PASSED IN INDTA (Received 19th Aoril, 11.30 a.in.) CALCUTTA, 18th April. After strong opposition the Legislative Assembly passed the Stales Protection Bill, .which is designed to protect Indian Princes against attacks, frequently scurrilous, on states’ administration and on the personal life of rulers, appearing in nationalist papers and books in British India. NO REGRETS GANDHI AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE (Received 19th April, 11.30 a.in.) CALCUTTA, 18th April. Gandhi, interviewed at Jorliat, Assam, declared that while lie considered Congressmen could and should co-oper-ate with the Government in legislatures, he never knew when the time might come to ask his sympathisers to resume the strucrrifi against the Government. He had no regrets for his past acts of civil disobedience.