AFFAIRS IN INDIA

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 12019, 21 August 1907, Page 3

AFFAIRS IN INDIA

Bombay, August 19. Baboo Arabinda Ghose, editor of I the ' 'Banda Mataaram, " has been ' arrested on a charge of sedition. He ief a Cambridge graduate. King Edward, ia a personal Istter to Lord Minto, Governor-General of IndiaY expressed, anxious concern in the progress! of. the plague, and said that he was. deeply «16ye« when [he thought of the misery endured hy his Indian subjects with such an extent of patience. He earnestly prayed that the further measures 1 o the Government may prove successful. . .

Lord Minto, in commuDicatiMg King Edward's sympathy to the public, expressed the, enormous difficulty of eradicating *he spurge, largely owing to the Indian people* inability to understand the Government's ; sanitary and hygienic me»-sures-if Lord Mifito added that the leading principle of the anti-plague campaign is that the people must work out their own salvation. The Government cacnot insist unreasonably upon the acceptance of its own ideas of modern hygiene.