FLOOD-GATES OF ANARCHY.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 September 1920, Page 5

FLOOD-GATES OF ANARCHY.

GHANDtfS EMOTIONAL POLICY. ANXIETY OVER INDIAN REFORM. By Telegraph-—Press Assn Copyright. London, Sept. 19. The fanatical boycott of the British Government, trade officials, and courts is being watched with great interest. There is anxiety lest it should wreck the reform scheme, bringing triumph for "Dyerism." " Mr. Garvin, in the Observer, writes:— "A perilous crisis is upon the British rule and the next three months will be the I most fateful in Indian history." Mr. Garvin describes Ghandi as an exalted idealI ist of concentrated sincerity, who is deaf to all prudential argument, and adds:— ' "His vast emotional policy is leading him to boycott even schools, railways and telegraphs. He is opening the floodgate of anarchy which would mean that revenue Would be suspended, commerce would cease, lawyers would not appear in court, and excitement would engender violence." Mr Garvin finds hope in the withdrawal of half the delegates from the congress before the boycott was voted, but he asserts that the moderates in India must throw themselves against Ghandi's campaign if the reforms are to be saved.— United Service.