DANGEROUS SITUATION

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11223, 31 May 1922, Page 6

DANGEROUS SITUATION

INDIA’S OUTLOOK HOW A RETURNED OFFICER FOUND TIIINCS. EXODUS OF WHITES. T>v To-’egraph.— Assn.—Copyright SYDXEY, May 30. Captain Latoucho, of the Boym Indian Marino, las arrived litre, alter thiny-ono years’ service m India. lie says tiiere is no doubt tint. India is in a bad way. One of tiio worst features of the situation is the general exodus of whites.. Slowly but surely India is losing its most tru-'.ed servants, who are being rep's; t d in a wholesale manner by In dsn's, main.lv balms from Bengal and Madras. They are clever, and able to ness any examination without diith eiil’y. but'when it comes to utilising ih i'r knowledge ns officials, they are failures. The natives had learned to trust the whites to impartially "x----?cuto their public duties, but the same confidence is not shown in tee integrity of the Indians who are replacing them. The natives, who love litigation, employ every wile to avoid appearing before the Indian Magistrate, and they squander money n

taking cases to the highest courts, ao that a white judge can try them. Captain Latoucho considers that a general upheaval in India is improbable. There are so many different races and castes that a concerted movement is out of the question.