SATANIC SYSTEM

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 12023, 29 December 1924, Page 12

SATANIC SYSTEM

•' " GANDHI’S LAST EFFORT. INDIAN POLITICAL TURMOIL. . STRIFE-MAKERS ACTIVE. CALCUTTA, December 18. The political situation is again, warming up in India. Gandhi, the extremist loader, in a remarkable speech at Dahore, the second on the same lines, promised his countrymen that he would announce an early possible scheme -which he is.no.w thinking out whereby they would be called on to attain independence or lay down their lives. This was followed by a declaration* that he was tired of laudation, when the populace did not follow his advice, and that he. had made his \aat public demonstration, " - He then announced his intention to leave public life, as ‘Tndia is not with he to-day/’ He added . that so long as he thought the present system of - Government "Satanic/* no long would he practice non-co-operation, but he warned the anarchists that the non-co-operation should be of a non-violent type. In view of the consequences of Gandhi’s previous eccentricities, however, there is hot a little fear that he will again be bertayed into a misguided decision. It is a regrettable coincidence that ho has decided to abdicate at the,moment when the startling report of the Kohat communal rioting is published, for he "will not do anything now to allay the smouldering communal passions. RIOTS AT KOHAT. The-official stories of the communal rioting at.Kohat (Punjab) in. September, in which a large number of people were killed and -wounded, do not allay public opinion that the wisest stops were not taken by the authorities to quell what might have developed into a small war.. The outbreak, which continued for several days, was the result of longstanding tension, which was precipitated by comparatively trifling incidents. The 7 investigating authority observes that •no ■ -British troops were available, while Indian troops, in spite of their patrolling the city walls, were unable to keep out the tribesman, who looed and fired the city. A number of i>olicemen themselves have beeh found guilty of looting. The authorities seem to have been unable to /deal with the situation, and a better 'system. *>>f protection is such wild areas is called for in the Press, which also demands a full judicial inquiry. MOSCOW'S INFLUENCES. Though it had been known for some time that there were Communists working individually in India in the cause of the Soviet;-the-existence of an organised society was generally unsuspected, though the fact that Indian 'Communists had combined in some way and got into touch with Moscow, was brought out at a recent trial at Cawnpore. A .report has now been issued hy a body, styling itself the Idian Communist Party, with headquarters at Cawnpore. and with a membership of 80, including > thrpe-wonien,, andi several journalists and ! land-owners. The body, apparently, has been dm existence for three months,’and i already several of its publications; have been proscribed by the