INDIAN ASPIRATIONS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19047, 18 December 1923, Page 7

INDIAN ASPIRATIONS

A CONCERTED PROTEST. Press Association —By Telegraph Copyright NAIROBI, December 15. The Indian members of the Legislative Executive Council have resigned in accordance with the recommendation of the Executive of the Indian National Congress of East Africa. Tills recommendation is based on the belief that the Government is about to enact anti-Indian legislation.—Reuter. BOYCOTTING THE EMPIRE. A BUSINESSLIKE REPORT. DELHI, December 16. (Received Dec. 17, at 7.20 p.m.) The committee appointed by the recent Nationalist Congress to report on the feasibility of encouraging Indian and boycotting British Empire goods has issued a report which says that all British Empire commodities cannot immediately be boycotted. There must be a gradual boycott, excepting articles necessary for health, education, and certain industries. It is of opinion that a complete boycott of Empire piece goods is feasible, and also of leather goods, cycles, motor cars, provisions, furniture, glassware, and cutlery, and that the import of liquors, spirits, tobacco, and other luxuries should be immediately stopped. The committee recommends a house to house propaganda by village boycott committees urging the use of Indian or non-British articles in preference to Empire goods.—Reuter.