INDIAN UNREST.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16433, 23 May 1921, Page 7

INDIAN UNREST.

EXTREMISTS MEET VICEROY. HOPEFUL SIGNS8y Telegraph—Prean Association—Copyziirhti Australian and Is'.Z. Cable Association. (Received May 23, 8.-10 a.m.» I>ELHT. May 21. D\ arrangement, Lord Reading, Viceroy of India, had conversations w ith ClLandhi and other extremist leaders aud discussed Indian questions from their standpoint. Ghandl'd states that Lord Reading assured him that there was no thought of wholesale arrests of extremist leaders if they avoided the incitement of the masses to rebellion.

Ghandhi expressed the belief that I-ord Reading ’,va& sincerely seeking India’s good and must be supported in ids efforts to conciliate India. Ghandi anticipates the repeal or modification of some recent legislation in the direction of giving. Indians equal consideration with the English in India. AGITATORS BUSY. By Telegraph —Frer* Association— Copyright Australian and '1 .Z. Cable Association. ('Received May 23, 9.13 a-m.) DELHI, May 21. Ii! connection with the trouble among the Assam tea coolies, who are in desperate straits owing to starvation, investigation shows that the strike was due to interference by extremist agitators, who declared that the rule of tho British Raj was ended and a Hindu king should be installed. The hostile population openly jeered at Europeans. The extremists demanded that the Government pay for '.he repatriation of the coolies or provide a livelihood for them.