INDIAN UNREST

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18464, 27 January 1922, Page 5

INDIAN UNREST

THE NON -UU-UPER ATUKoUNLAWFUL MEETINGS. | v ‘ ' ’V ( ■ i DISPERSED BY POU(3&St ij _____ i . ,*i Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, DELHI, January 25. In defiance of a police prohibition the n non-co-operators at Calcutta held a meeting to discuss the Mopish question. The police charged and dispersed the crowd, of whom 155 were arrested. r i Similar meetings were held ‘'at ’ other f places. At Dacea the police dispensed/a <; v gathering amid a shower of brickbats. Several demonstrators were injured, ( ;*ad a number were arrested.—Renter.'/"/ "i LORD NORTHCLIFFE. SERIOUS VIEW OF SITUATION, MOSLEM ANTAGONISM.'i —— M ‘-.‘ i DELHI, January V Lord Northcliffe, interviewed regarding '] Indian unrest, declared that he ~ was shocked at the change in the demeanour of the Indians, especially the Moslems, toward Europeans. The Moslem situation was much uglier than the British -press appeared to know, and official, <»aimercial, and newspaper authorities .were/insistent on the urgency oi an immediate settlement. This, according to 'moderate Mohammedans, was possible only* 5 through a change in the British policy towards. V Turkey, including the recognition of the Sultan as the head of Islam, the .femoration of the sacred city of Adrianople "and of the whole of Asia Minor," including Smyrna, to Turkey.—Renter. THE PRINCE’S VISIT. • ; - . ■ ' f '.ai ; U - . RECEPTION AT HYDERABAD. *. ... * A SPLENDID CEREMONIAL.' ? ’ DELHI, January 25.' The Prince of Wales had a ception at Hyderabad. Great crowds'of / natives assembled along the five-mile ; ' route of the Royal procession, - testifying their hearty and sincere loyalty. Then* ' / was no sign of anything in £he shape -of a boycott or political strife. Thetcity and ,V the bazaars were lavishly decorated and illuminatod. Fourteen thousand girl 'and '/ boy students from various institutions, / were distributed in stands along the poute. ; Many sightseers took their places early ‘ in the morning, and waited for hours , ‘ ; j The ceremonial proceedings ■/ ' werr vfl marked by much splendpur and elaborate '' etiquette. The'Nizam of Hyderabad ap- -’ pearod to be determined to outdo all other fnative rulers in the lavishness and mag* '• nificence of the reception.—A- and N.Z. 1 Cable. , : [Referring to the tear of the Prince of Wales in a leading article on December 'ls, / the Pioneer (Allahabad) said:—‘The 'qtedi-.-f'iJ ties which endeared him to the peopske of the British dominions could not fail to make their appeal in India. The objeht fif hi* ij visit is clearly apparent to oil who not wisp to understand, and constitute but a small and discredited tion of the educated classes in this greS|nH country. It is accordingly with a feeling® of unreserved confidence that the of the people of India and their courtesy and' respect for the Eing-EmperorH and his family can find expression as Prince proceeds on his mission. We that, following their fiasco at Both bay. irreconcilable element-more vocal numbers justify—have mode efforts to prevent the welcome’ of tKo from, appearing ,to be as is expected to be. With all of his high office, the Viceroy. sistently declared that the political that may be nursed by any section/ community are in no way affected ,Ijy payment to the person of the loyal respect that is his due by his rank and personal character. - This repeated declaration has' been so ignored by the non-co-operators -that futile to expect them at the eleventh to make a manly confession of their’ consistency.”]