VICEROY TO MEET GANDHI

Taranaki Daily News, 18 February 1931, Page 7

VICEROY TO MEET GANDHI

ISSUES TO BE DISCUSSED

INDIAN LEADER’S OPEN MIND

“SEEKING ENLIGHTMENT”

DESIRES TO SHARE HOPES

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 11 p.m. Delhi, Feb. 17.

The Viceroy has consented to meet Gandhi and the latter left Allahabad last night for Delhi, where the two will discuss the issues raised in the Prime Minister’s declaration at the roundtable conference.

Gandhi in a letter to the Viceroy declared himself as possessing an open mind but being desirous of sharing with the conference delegates their hopes for the future. Gandhi adds that he is anxious to secure further enlightenment from the Viceroy in person.

LONDON CONFERENCE WORK

NO PLANS FOR CONTINUATION.

delegation NOT arranged.

British., Wireless. Rugby, Feb. 16. It is authoritatively stated that . o decision has been reached regarding the despatch of a Parliamentary delegation to India to continue Uiu work of the round-table conference and rumours regarding the ultimate constitution of the delegation are therefore clearly speculative. Captain Wedgwood-Benn, Secretary for India, stated in the House of Commons that he was unable yet to rfiake a precise statement of the Government s plans. ‘ Asked if he had any information regarding the attitude of the Congress Party towards the conference proposals, Captain Benn said lie could add nothing to what had appeared in the Press. In reply to’ a further question, he said he understood that there was to be an interview between the Viceroy and Gandhi. ■ The report from New Delhi that Captain Wedgwood-Benn and Mr. J. H. Thomas are going to India in connection with the working out of a constitution based on the round-table conference’s report is described as nonsense by the Daily Herald.

“DEATH OF SELFLESS PATRIOT.”

CALCUTTA’S ORDERLY MOURNING.

Calcutta, Feb. 16. To-day was observed by Indians of rll classes and creeds, rich and poor, as a day of silence in memory of Motllal Nehru’s death, transforming Calcutta into a city of the dead. It 'was the most complete liartai for mhhy yearb. Numerous processions in the afternoon, bearing Congress flags, converge*! on Maidan, where Mr. J. M. Sen Gupth, the ex-Mayor, addressed .a meeting of hundreds of thousands, referring in feeling terms to the irreparable loss to India by the death of a selfless patriot > this crisis. No police ivere present, and perfect ordgr prevailed. . Al India is anxiously awaiting tho result of the conversation between the Viceroy and Gandhi. .