INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
SPEECH BY DR GHOSE. APPRECIATION OF PROMISED REFORMS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright, (Received December 29, 9.45 p.m.) CALCUTTA, December 29. Tho Indian Congress was opened at Madras yesterday. Dr Ghose was elected President. In his opening speech, Dr Ghose declared that the whole of India was deeply grateful for Lord Morley’s efforts, which gave tho country something like constitutional Government. Indians had to do their beet to show themselves deserving of Britain’s confidence. 'Colonial self-government was India’s ideal, though it was very distant. Dr Ghose said he hoped repressive legislation would only be temporary. He ridiculed tho idea of shaking British sovereignty by a few flasks of picric acid and a few pounds of powder. Mahomedan papers consider the reforms tantamount to political abandonment of Mahomodans in favour of Hindoos. They also condemn Lord Morley’s disregarding of Lord Miuto’s efforts to safeguard Mahomodans.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6704, 30 December 1908, Page 5
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