INDIAN AGITATORS
GOVERNMENT'S POWERS VAIN EFFORT TO CANCEL Times Cable LONDON, Feb. 13 The Delhi correspondent of the Times reports that by the casting vote of the President, Sir Abdur Rahim, the Legislative Assembly rejected a motion introduced by Mr. B. Das, Congress leader, to repeal the Criminal Law Amendment Act which empowers the Government to deal with subversive activities. The Congress members supported the bill in pursuance of their electoral promise to secure the repeal of the Act, which was mainly responsible for killing the latest civil disobedience movement. A great impression was made by Sir Mohammed Yakub, who described the persistent, secret Communist propaganda in India, especially in educational establishments. He read from a poster which the Communists are alleged to have had printed and circulated among Sikh regiments, urging the troops to join the revolutionary movement. The speaker indignantly commented on the suggestion in the poster that Indian soldiers would go over to an enemy in the event of war. The voting was 66 for and 66 against the motion.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22344, 15 February 1936, Page 13
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