GRAVE CRISIS IN INDIA

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 858, 30 December 1929, Page 9

GRAVE CRISIS IN INDIA

DISASTROUS POLICY THREATENED INDEPENDENCE WRANGLE Reed. 11 a.m. DELHI, Sunday. The working committee of tlie Indian National Congress carried a resolution defining Swaraj as independence and the separation of India from Great Britain, demanding, under Gandhi’s influence, the boycott of the Legislature’s courts and schools—in other words, a return to the disastrous policy followed at the time of the Prince of Wales’s visit to India. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, the congressmen are wrangling fiercely. By a narrow majority, the committee passed a resolution deploring the bomb outrage and congratulating the Viceroy, Lord Irwin, on his escape. EXTREMIST CONGRESS DOES NOT REPRESENT ALL INDIA British Official Wireless Reed. 10.47 a.m. RUGBY, Sunday. The working committee of the Indian National Congress, consisting of 25 members of the congress, has adopted a resolution by Mr. Gandhi which, while appreciating the efforts of the Viceroy in the settlement of national government for Swaraj, or home rule, expresses the opinion that no good purpose would be served by the congress being represented at the round-table conference in London. Press messages from India point out that when the congress is described as an Ali-India congress, it does not represent all India. It is believed that the abstention of members of the congress from the central and provincial legislatures may even give new life to and inci%ase the powers of the latter, seeing that they will then be manned only by cooperators.