WILL NOT CO-OPERATE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 192, 14 August 1931, Page 1

WILL NOT CO-OPERATE.

l Gandhi and Round Table | Conference. 0 1 NEW GRIEVANCE ALLEGED. r United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright, f (Received August 14, noon*) ’ RUGBY, August 14. News reached London to-day that 1 the All-India Congress, sitting at Bom--5 bay, decided not to co-operate with the J London Round Table Conference, which , re-assembles next month, t The decision was arrived at followl ing the receipt by Gandhi of what was . regarded to be an unsatisfactory reply from the Viceroy, Lord Willingdon, to whom he addressed a grievance alleging coercion in the collection of land tax in Gijerat, Bombay. The Government found that only ordinary legal procedure had been followed and there had been no breach of the Delhi truce. Although the decision of the Congress will be received with regret, the Round Table Conference will proceed with its work according to plan. The co-operation of the All-India Congress in the conference was one of the primary objects of agreement arrived at between Lord Irwin, former Viceroy of Ind: and Gandhi. The authorities in India have carried out the terms of the agreement, both in the letter and the spirit. Everything possible, consistent with the responsibility of the authorities for the operation of ordinary law, has been done to smooth away dfficulties.