AFFAIRS IN INDIA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18751, 3 January 1923, Page 5

AFFAIRS IN INDIA

THE NATIONAL CONGRESS. CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE CAMPAIGN. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright DELHI, December 31. ; The National Congress, by an overwhelming majority, adopted a resolution repudiating all debts and liabilities incurred henceforward by the Government of India, existing liabilities being excepted.—Reuter. The congress, by a. majority, rejected a resolution in favour of boycotting British goods, after it had been passed by the Subjects Committee. The opponents of the motion declared that such a policy was impracticable, that it would prove economically injurious, and would antagonise the British Labourites. The Kaliphate Conference carried, by a large majority, a resolution favouring a boycott of British goods, and appointed a committee to arrange the details of the boycott. The committee proposes to appeal for 50.000 volunteers and 25 lakhs of_ rupees preparatory to launching a civil disobedience campaign.—A. and N.Z. Cable. (Received Jan. 1, at 7.5 p.m.) The Congress, in rejecting the proposal to contest spate in the Councils, derided to leave the nrosent con-cooperative programme unchanged.—Rom*®*. DELHI. January 1. The National Congress, in its concluding session, resolved that its Working Committee should consult with the Kali phnte Conference Working. Committee to deal with tho'Near Eastern situation, and appeal for funds and volunteers in order to prepare the country for a civil disobedience campaign when all India has decided to act. It was also decided to organise labour and the peasantry in co-operation with the Trades Tbiion* Congress. Attemnt.s to reach a definition of swaraj, as meaning complete independence, were defeated. —Reuter.