CONDITIONS IN INDIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20580, 3 June 1930, Page 9

CONDITIONS IN INDIA.

REVIEW BY GENERAL PALMER BOLSHEVIK ACTIVITIES. Present conditions in India wero surveyed by Brigadier-General G. S. Falmer, a former Judge-Advocate-General of the Army in India, in an address at tho weekly luncheon of the Auckland Rotary Club yesterday. General Palmer, who retired from the Army about six months ago, and is now living in Auckland, gave a concise account of tho manner in which tho forces of revolt wero working in the country, speaking along tho lines which ho followed in an interview published in tho Herald on May 5. It could bo taken as definite that much of tho present trouble in India was due to tho activities of Bolshevik agitators. General Palmer said. Russia had expressed its firm intention of attacking the British Empire through its weakest link, India, lie did not think there was any real danger of an armed revolution, but there certainly was the prospect of a prolonged policy of intimidation, with a succession of acts of violence. It was tho aim of tho British Government to grant India Dominion status as soon as possiblo, but the time was not yet ripe. Mr. D. Robertson presided at the gathering, and among the guests present wero Mr. T. B. Nossiter, of Sydney, Mr. W. F. Walker and Mr. E. F. Billson, of Melbourne, Mr. R. Wallace, of Napier, and Mr. E. E. Vaile, of Rotorua.