EVENTS IN INDIA
AGITATORS SEVERELY CRITICIZED. (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) Delhi, March 7. Severe comment on the methods of Indian agitators was made by Sir Geoffrey Montmorency, Governor of the Punjab, when addressing Europeans. He emphasized that he would take every step in his power to discharge his primary duty of maintaining law and order. He adder! that the sordid personal ambitions of the leaders of unlawful movements and their misrepresentations and exaggerations were such prominent and unsavoury features that all sympathy for them had been alienated. INDIAN BUDGET BIG DEFICIT EXPECTED. Delhi, March 7. Sir George Schuster, Finance member of the Executive Council of the Viceroy of India, introducing the Budget proposals for 1932-33 in the Assembly, said it was expected to close the current year with a deficit of 1366 lakhs of rupees (about £10,250,000), but that next-year he anticipated a surplus of 215 lakhs of rupees. The expenditure had been overhauled and reduced. The country was making an economic recovery and would emerge from the storm stronger than ever..
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Southland Times, Issue 21648, 9 March 1932, Page 5
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