FUTURE OF INDIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 21029, 13 November 1931, Page 9

FUTURE OF INDIA.

ME. GANDHI'S THREAT.

INSISTENCE ON DEMANDS. CONFERENCE A FAILURE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON. Nov. 11. " The India Round Table Conference is bound to fail," said Mr. Gandhi to an interviewer to-day. " Mr. MncDonald s only alternatives arc to grant the Indian National Congress its full programme or return to military autocracy. "If our demands arc not granted civil disobedience v.-ill break out again, British goods will be completely boycotted and goods not manufactured in India will be imported from America, even if they aro inferior to English goods. Beet sugar will be obtained from Germany rather than from Mauritius."

Mr. Gandhi said he was sure ho could keep the civil disobedience movement non-violent. The British, he said, knew that the conference would fail when they called it because it was packed with delegates who were bound to quarrel. LATER INTERVIEW. HOPE NOT ABANDONED. "SHALL KNOW IN A WEEK." (Received November 12, 7.40 p.m.) LONDON, Nor. 11. In a later interview Mr. Gandhi expressed the view that if he believed the conference would fail he would not stay in England. "I shall continue to hope," he said, "until there is positive evidence that nothing is to be gained. I shall know that in a week."