INDIAN OUTLOOK REVIEWED.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18614, 9 July 1930, Page 9

INDIAN OUTLOOK REVIEWED.

Interest In Round Table Conference. POSTPONEMENT OF QUESTION. United Press Association— By Electric Tel egraph—Copyright At the request of the Secretary of State for India, in the House of Commons, various questions regarding the composition and terms of the reference of the round table conference on Jndian affairs were postponed until Wednesday. The weekly appreciation of the situation. compiled by the Government of India, and circulated to Members of Parliament, describes as the chief event of the week in India the declaration of the All India Congress Working Committee to be an unlawful association under the Criminal Law Amendment Act. The Committee consists at full strength of about 15 persons, who for a considerable period have been playing a prominent part in the organisation and direction of a civil disobedience movement. Not only had they urged the public to defy the law and refuse payment of taxes, but they had circulated an incitement to the troops and police to fail in their duty in dealing with the civil disobedience movement

simultaneously. The Committees president, Pundit Nehru and the secretary were arrested and sentenced to six months simple Imprisonment each. Hartals in various towns followed, but many of them were incomplete, and there had been no clashes with the authorities.

Popular demonstrations had been most marked in Bombay City, where the conditions continue unsatisfactory. In spite of the activities of Congress the situation shows distinct signs of improvement in several directions. The position on the frontier is rapidly returning to normal. In parts of Cujarat there are indications that the movement is losing some of its vigour, and most of the provinces report a slackening of efforts. The conviction is growing that the civil disobedience movement cannot succeed, and commercial and industrial circles are showing increasing concern regarding the consequences of

its continuance. There is an increase in constructive efforts towards the constitutional solution of the political problems, and the Mahomedans in particular are devoting much attention to the presentation of their case at the London Conference. While the situation has still many unstable elements, these are not so numerous or so pronounced as a few weeks ago.