TROUBLE IN INDIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 21049, 7 December 1931, Page 9

TROUBLE IN INDIA.

HATRED AGAINST BRITISH. INTENSIVE BOYCOTT URGED. NEW DISOBEDIENCE CAMPAIGN. PROPOSALS OF CONGRESS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received December G, 5.5 p.m.) DELHI,, Dec. 5. Hatred of the British is to be found in every line of a resolution now before the Bengal Congress Conference" at Berhampore. The resolution proposes to restart an intensive boycott of everything British, including cotton good.'!, banks, insurance companies and shipping by propaganda and picketing. Civil disobedience is also to be resumed. Villagers are to be asked not to pay taxes. FAREWELL CALLS. DELEGATES LEAVE LONDON, MR. GANDHI HOPEFUL. (Received December G, 5.5 p.m.) BrTlsh Wireless. RUGBY, Dec. 5. Many prominent Indian delegates to the Bound-Table Conference are returning home during tho next few days. Before departing, they are making fareivell calls on the Prime Minister and other Ministers with whom they have been so closely associated during the last few weeks. (

Among those who had an interview of this character with the Primo Minister to-day was Mr. Gandhi. Before leaving, Mr. Gandhi said it had been well worth while coming to England. He was leaving full of hope for India. APPROVAL OF POLICY. HOUSE PASSES MOTION. | CHEERS FOR MR. CHURCHILL, j British Wireless. RUGBY, Dec. 4. The House of Commons endorsed the Government's Indian policy by 369 votes to 43. In the later stages of the debate it, became clear that the statements made on behalf of the Government, including that of Sir John Simon, Foreign Secretary, satisfied all but a small minority. Mr. Wardlaw Milne, chairman of the Conservative Indian Committee, 6aid the House need have no hesitation in accepting the Government's proposals. Mr. A. H. E. Molson (Conservative — Doncaster) opposed Mr. Winston Churchill's amendment as being calculated to prejudice good relations in India. He hoped Mr. Gandhi and the Congress would see that the spirit of the Irwin-Gandhi agreement, now being broken by the boycott of British mills in India, was carried out. | Sir Austen Chamberlain said Mr. j Churchill was asking for something no I honourable body could approve, i Mr. George Lansbury, Leader of the j Labour Party, said they were most anxious | to see the negotiations continued. The debate excited the keenest interest. , Mr. Churchill's speech wqs among the | most effective he has ever made. It j would not bo safe to assume from the division that the House was practically wholly hostile, or that Mr. Churchill' did not : represent a section of opinion in the House ! of Commons and country. The Parliamentary correspondents of the Morning Post and Daily Telegraph join in testifying to tho remarkable) reception ! given to his speech. The cheering grew |in volume and enthusiasm as the ispeech j lengthened. | The Daily Telegraph says the majority ! of those cheering probably had no inten- ■ j tion of voting in favour of the amend- " ment, although there were a few moments ! i when even this seemed possible. | The Morning Post says the Government i is faced with one paramount duty—to re- ' store tranquillity in India. The Govern--1 ment will serve the best interests if it : N i makes it clear that self-government will be * granted only to good subjects, and to t"iie 1 extent to which it was found that con- ' j fidence could be reposed in their responI sibility. ' : Tho News-Chronicle says the division ! showed in tho plainest possible manner ; that the Government is authorised to purj sue the policy defined by the Prime Minister and Sir Samuel Hoare. Any doubts : in India or elsewhere whether tho country j is behind the Government policy are now i settled.