INDIAN REFORMERS
WORKING THE WRONG WAY AITI-BRITISH TACTICS WILL PREJUDICE CAUSE. VICEROY’S PLAIN SPEECH. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copy right. Reuter's Telegram. DELHI, October 18. The Earl of Reading, Viceroy of India, speaking at a Chelmsford Club banquet at Simla, in a roviow of the disturbed political situation, alluded to the threat of the Nationalist candidates to wreck the reformed constitution. He pointed out that this would only injure the onward march of the Indian cause. He was disinclined to take tho threat seriously, but, assuming that it materialised, it would only paralyse the reforms. The Government would continue functioning as usual. He reminded Indians that their advance would l depend only on the cooperation of tho people and the goodwill of t-he British Parliament. He, therefore, warned them that the proposals to boycott the Empire Exhibition and British Empire goods, whether successful or unsuccessful, would not injure the Empire, and would only injure India, alienate British sympathy, and prejudice tho cause of the representative institutions of India. Touching on the Sikh situation, ho recounted the scandalous administration of the Maharajah of Nabha, which had resulted in his deposition, and emphatically announced that the Maharajah would never bo restored to power.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11655, 20 October 1923, Page 6
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