SEDITION IN INDIA.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12718, 14 February 1910, Page 3

SEDITION IN INDIA.

RELEASE OF DEPORTEES. A TEST OF LOYALTY. THE PRESS BILL. [Press Association— Ccptniont.] Calcutta, Feb 11. Some of the deported agitators have been released under tlie new amnesty, and have arrived at Calcutta. lhey were received by a. procession singing extremist songs and shouting Brande Mattaram." The repatriated include Mittar.. the editor of the "Sanjabhani," who was welcomed by Arabuido Ghose. ■ , „ A Reuter messago says~that tho Government of India is entirely responsible for the release of the deported agitators. The paper adds that the, decision is partly owing to tho native communities' proof of loyalty in materially assisting the passing of the Press Act. and the partly improved condition of tlie country. . , During the Press Bill debate m the Legislative Council tha Maharaja of Bardwan declared that tho educated minds of India were perplexed at tlie adoption of measures against sedition there, when tho. members of the House !of Commons and the leaders of the 1 Labour party in England were allowed to say that the time had come tor the Crown to go into the molting pot. The Maharaja insisted that socialism ought not to bo allowed to enter India. An attempt to make the Bill operative for only three years was defeated by 42 to 16.