DELHI AGREEMENT TERMS

Taranaki Daily News, 29 April 1931, Page 7

DELHI AGREEMENT TERMS

ALLEGED BRITISH FAILURE

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE REVIVAL INDIAN CONGRESS PLANS CONDITIONS OF CONFERENCE By Telegraph—Pries Asen.—Copyright Recd. 12 p.m. Delhi, April 28. Gandhi and Vallabhai Patel, the President of Congress, are understood to be considering a revival of the civil disobedience campaign as a result of the Government’s alleged failure to cany out the terms of the Delhi agreement between Gandhi and Lord Irwin. Congress dedares that political prisoners are not being released and confiscated lands are not being restored in accordance with the pact. According to a Bombay newspaper Gandhi stipulates the following as the conditions for attending the round table conference in London: Drastic cuts in military expenditure; safeguards for Indian State subjects; complete fiscal autonomy and scrutiny of the public debt. These conditions are said to have been made in a despatch which Gandhi handed to Lord Irwin before li}s departure. TWO KILLED IN PLANE CRASH. BELIEVED SNIPED BY AFRIDIS. Recd. 12 p.m. Delhi, April 28. Believed to have been sniped at by Afridis while flying over tribal territory, a Royal Air Force Bristol bomber clashed 20 miles from Peshawar in the week-end. Pilot-Officer D. G. Wood and Aircraftsman Ring were killed. Friendly tribesmen later brought the bodies ’to the political authorities at Jamrud.