BRITAIN’S POLICY IN INDIA.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18619, 15 July 1930, Page 9

BRITAIN’S POLICY IN INDIA.

Intense Interest Aroused. FULL DEBATE DESIRED. British Official Wireless RUGBY, July 12. Viscount Burnham, who was a member of the Indian- Statutory Commission, has given notice that he will ask the Government in the House of Lords next Wednesday whether, having regard to Lord Irwin’s statement at Simla on July 9, the report of the Indian Statutory Commission will form the main subject of consideration and discussion at the round table conference, which is to assemble here in November next. This will give rise to a debate which will be the first to be held in Parliament since the Viceroy’s recent declaration. The Prime Minister, in the House of Commons on Monday, will be asked whether he proposed to give the House of Commons an opportunity for discussion of the political situation in India, before the Houses rise at the end of July for the summer recess. DISORDERS IN BOMBAY. CLASHES RESULT IN BLOODSHED United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received July 14, 9.20 p.m.) DELHI, July 14. An outbreak of disorder occurred in the Wymensingh area, in Bengal East, resulting in nine Hindus being killed, in a series of communal clashes, between 1 Hindus and Moslems. Extensive looting took place. The police fired on several gangs of hooligans, who became utterly desperate. Fifty additional armed police have been drafted from Dacca. Prime Minister’s Statement. Referring to the situation in India in a speech at the Crystal Palace last night, the Prime Minister, Mr Ramsay Macdonald, said the state of India today was serious. What was happening was only adding to India’s difficulties, and was not advancing India’s chance of reaching the Dominion status. “The men with whom we wish to cooperate have had to be arrested for actions which, if they themselves had been responsible for purely Indian Government, faced with conditions such as those they have created recently, would have compelled the arrest of the people responsible for those conditions. The whole of this is a melancholy thing, which is unnecessary and foolish. The men who are going to be the Governors of States and responsible for administration, ought to look ahead, and understand the conditions under which alone evolu. n and change are possible’’. ,