DANGEROUSLY UNWISE

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6749, 22 February 1909, Page 5

DANGEROUSLY UNWISE

INDIAN REFORMS LOAD MORLEY’S FRANTIC HASTE TO MAKE PARADISE. CIVIL SHE VICE FEEDING. By Telegraph—Frees Association—Copyright (Received February 21, 4.45 p.m.) • LONDON, February 20. It is stated by the correspondent of “ The Times ” at Dacca, an important centre in Bengal, that the predominat-, ing feeling among members of tho Civil Service is that some of tho provisions in tho programme of reform recently announced by Lord Morley, Secretary of State for India, are dangerously unwise. What is termed Lord Morley’s “frantic haste to make a paradise for tho Hindu lower classes 1 ” is severely condemned, it being stated . that really tho mass of tho cultivators will have less protection than hitherto. Tho ejection to tho Provincial Councils without tho right of veto, it a urged, will admit undesirables, so that more objection is taken to this part of tho scheme than to the provision for admission to tho Viceroy’s Council. REPEATED BOMB OUTRAGES. GOVERNMENT PROVIDES EXTRA PUNITIVE FORCE. TO KEEP ORDER. , CALCUTTA, February 20. The repeated bomb outrages which have taken plaoo of late have caused the Government to station a punitive police force among the villages along tho Barrackpur railway in addition to the regular police who are patrolling tho line.