EXTREMISTS IN INDIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20690, 9 October 1930, Page 13

EXTREMISTS IN INDIA.

PUNJABIS SENTENCED. WIDESPREAD CONSPIRACY. THREE TO BE EXECUTED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received October 8. 8.15 p.m.) DELHI. Oct. 7. Three young Punjabis were sentenced to death at Lahore to-day for participation in a revolutionary conspiracy. Seven other accused men were transported for life. Two were sentenced to seven and five years' rigorous imprisonment respectively and three were acquitted. The accused were implicated in a plot with ramifications throughout India to wage war against the King by murder, brigandage and the manufacture and use of bombs. It was known as the Hindustan Republican army. The martial law ordinance in the Northwest Provinces is likely to be withdrawn shortly owing to the improved political situation there, but the Afridi problem remains. COMING CONFERENCE. BRITI'sH PARTY NOMINEES. OFFICIALS ALSO TO ATTEND. British Wireless. RUGBY. Oct. 7. At the forthcoming Round Table Conference on Indian affairs the British Government will be represented by the Prime Minister. Mr. Mac Donald, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Sankey, the Secretary of State for India, Mr. Wedgwood Benn, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Mr. A. Henderson, and the Secretary of State for the Dominions, Mr. J. H. Thomas.

Other Ministers will be invited to meetings of the conference and of the committees, according to the subject under discussion.

Those nominated to represent the Conservative Party are Viscount Peel, Sir Samuel Hoare, the Marquess of Zetland and Major Oliver Stanley, M.P. The Liberal Party representatives will be the Marquess of Reading, the Marquess of Lothian, Sir Robert Hamilton, M.P., and Mr. Isaac Foot, M.P.

In consultation with the Secretary of State for India the Government of India has agreed that the following officials shall attend the conference in a consultative capacity: Sir Malcolm Hailey, Governor of the United Provinces, and Sir Arthur McWatters, Finance Secretary to the Government of India.

It is announced that the King has accepted the resignation of Sir Malcolm Hailey from the Governorship of the United Provinces, to enable him to be available at the conference. The vacancy will be filled by Sir George Bancroft. Lambert, Finance Member of the Executive Council, until Sir Malcolm is free to return to India and resume his Governorship.