THE INDIAN COMMISSION

Taranaki Daily News, 8 February 1928, Page 2

THE INDIAN COMMISSION

Members arrive in Bombay. EFFORT TO ALLAY’ SUSPICION. (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, Feb. 4. Sir John Simon and the other members of the Statutory Commission arrived at Bombay yesterday. Sir John Simon issued a statement to the press in the following terms: “My colleagues and I set foot in India fully impressed with the responsibility of our work and resolve all our energy and goodwill to its discharge. Constitutional progress in British India essentially depends on the friendly and sincere co-operation of Indian and British representatives, but it is manifest that there exists, at the moment in some quarters, widespread misunderstanding as to what the Commission is setting out to do, and uncertainty respecting the methods jt proposes to employ. “We shall make it our business without delay to remi .e misa~ ’honsion, and after reaching Delhi and becoming more acquainted with the actual situation, we intend to make a statement of our proposed procedure which should leave no ground for the suspicions which have unfortunately arisen.” “We mean to take the fullest opportunity open to us for consultation with Indian represents " res who are willing to meet us. 1 ->th during our preliminary visit and when we return for our longer visit in October.”