UNREST IN INDIA.
THE GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE. DELHI, November 7. < The Government of India has issued a definition of their attitude towards Gandhi’s non-co-operation movement. They declare it is nonconstitution, as its object is to paralyse and the subversion of the existing administration. They refrained from taking action, firstly because, of the reluctance to interfere with liberty of speech and the newspapers at a time when India was on the eve of a great advance towards the realisation of responsible Government; secondly, because of reluctance to make martyrs of individuals, some of\ whom may be honest in their convictions; thirdly, because they trust that tfie commonsense of India will reject the suggested non-co-operation as visionary and chimerical. leading only to chaos and the loss of the benefits attained by years of orderly progress. The manifesto refers to the fact that the movement has failed so far as the educated classes are concerned. but non-co-operators are now appealing to immature students and the illiterate masses. It. adds a warning that c continuance of the Government’s present policy of noninterference depends upon the success of moderate citizens in keeping the non-co-operation movement within reasonable bounds.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18021, 9 November 1920, Page 9
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