NEW FAITH IN BRITAIN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17454, 31 December 1930, Page 7

NEW FAITH IN BRITAIN

FIRMNESS TELLS IN INDIA CONGRESS LEADERS LOSE HOLD CALCUTTA, Dec.- 19. Faith in British rule is reviving in India. Tire preachers of sedition are losing their hold over the masses of the population. \ At tho same time, the firmness of tlie Administration in suppressing the advocates of sedition and violence is having its effect.

The annual meeting of the National Congress, which stands for resistance to British authority, will not be held this year. The “Voice of India,” as the partisans of congress have regarded 1 1 for the past generation, will not be lies i d.

For one tiling, all tho congress leaders with one exception, are “His Majesty’s guests,” having keen sent to prison foi advocating open and violent resistance to the law, or for refusing to give guarantees for ceasing to do so. Other lesser leaders have been imprisoned, without any alternative, for extreme acts of violence. Many of their youthful followers, also, have been sentenced.

The/ one execution is Pandit Motilal Nehru, veteran leader in Congress and Swarajist movements. He is not in prison, but he is a sick man and cannot attend to Nationalist activities. . The Government is rightlv taking very firm action against the unlawful activities of Congress. Its offices in various parts of the country have been locked ”r> *he Congress flag pulled down, and foo'i«h younci men arrested. ifl'ere pre nndriiht«d signs that the voopte are growing tired of the civil flinobpdmnep mnvp’epot. and are realiVmr tbat the Uviiisb are not tbo perfidious nsonle wbi'di some of their misguided, leaders would have them believe.