AMNESTY PROCLAMATION

Taranaki Daily News, 24 June 1931, Page 5

AMNESTY PROCLAMATION

THE BURMESE REBELLION CERTAIN EXCEPTIONS NAMED CONDITIONS OF THE PARDON WIDER SCOPE ASKED FOR British Official Wireless. Rec. 5.5 p.m. Rugby, June 22. The British Government had Issued a proclamation of amnesty to all except the leaders and participators in the serious outrages in Burma on the undertaking being given by them that they would return to their villages, assist the Government and give information about the rebellion, stated Captain Wedgwood Benn,, Secretary for India, in the House of Commons to-day. The Government had had several interviews with the leaders of the different communities and parties, at which it was requested that the scope of the amnesty should be widened. This proposal was being considered, The economic situation was unchanged. The late arrival of rain had delayed cultivation in many districts and it was impossible yet to distinguish the effect of this from the effects of the rebellion on the economic situation. Captain Benn answered in the negative a question whether the Government would consider the advisability bf postponing the meeting of the Indian federal structure committee until certain ruling Princes who had recently condemned the federal constitution outlined by the round-table conference accepted that principle.