UNREST IN INDIA

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 195, 19 August 1931, Page 7

UNREST IN INDIA

GREAT TRADE DECLINE INDIAN PRODUCE SUFFERS CONGRESS BOYCOTT EFFECT By Telegraph—Press Association— Received Aug. 18, 9.45 p.m. DELHI, Aug. 18. Largely due to the Congress buy cott, the foreign trade of Bombay Presidency has declined by £4O,OUU,OUU for the year ended March 31. Exports of Indian produce fell by £12,750,u00. HOSTILITIES IN BURMA OPEN FIGHTING RESUMED Received Aug. 18, 11.5 p.m. DELHI, Aug. 18. After a long interval, open fighting between Government forces and rebels has resumed in Burma. A large party of insurgents in the Tharrawaddy dis trict attacked a police outpost but were driven off with 1 cavy losses. “A NATURAL SEQUEL.” 1 ‘There is little to wonder at and still less to condemn in the desire of India to manage more and more of its own affairs,” said Lord Irwin, former Viceroy of India, in a speech at Sheffield University, where he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, says thj “Manchester Guardian.” It was important, he said, for Great Britain firmly to appreciate that the present Indian demand was only the natural sequel to everything that Great Britain had been doing in the way of educatio” for the last hundred years. “I would have England appreciate that if to-day we fail to find a solution of the problem, it will not only be a disappointment to Indian aspirations widely held, but it will also be the defeat of our own highest hopes of the last thirty, forty, or fifty years.” Great Britain, he aded, would be rendering the greatest disservice to India if she were to contemplate an immediate, abrupt, and sudden dissociation from active partnership in Indian welfare. He could conceive of no greater disservice this country could render to India when India was on the threshold of a new constitution, than a sudden dissociation by which lhe defence of India should be impaired, or that the financial and internal order of the country or the position of minorities be dangerously weakened, or that a vital economic credit of India, on which the whole of her life depended. It would bo the duty of those who represented Britain to convince India, as he believed it was possible to do, that they sought for no safeguard and for no adjustments which wen not administered in the widest interest of India, and’that they, no loss than the greatest Indian patriot, desired to lead India forward to self government. __