INDIAN UNREST

Wairarapa Daily Times, 20 January 1932, Page 5

INDIAN UNREST

SYMPATHY WITH CONGRESS EVINCED BY MISSIONARIES. Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright DELHI, Tuesday. Dr. Ernest Forrester Paton, a Scottish missionary at Turruppatur was charged before an Indian judge at Madras with picketing shops selling British goods. Paton is a brother-in-law of Mr. Miller, member of the House of Commons for East Fife. He claimed trial as a British subject. The ease was adjourned.

The sympathetic attitude of other missionaries towards the Congress movement is exercising official circles. Mr. G. B. Halstead, an American missioner and Social Director of the Lucknow Christian College, has been requested to leave the country owing, to his political activities. Father Elliven, an American, and a personal friend of Gandhi, has been deported from the North-West Frontier Province.

GOLD SHIPMENTS. CONGRESS OBJECTION. DELHI, Tuesday. The steamed Rawal Pindi left Bombay at the week-end for England with a cargo including bullion valued at £2,073,000. Congress condemns the Government for permitting the export of gold. Yesterday, sixteen Congress supporters, including two women, were sentenced to six months’ hard labour for picketing the Royal Mint at Bombay, with the object of preventing the shipment of gold.

CRAWLING TO GANDHI. BASELESS RUMOUR. DELHI, Monday. A rumour that the Indian Government is likely to encourage any section of the political leaders to interview Gandhi or other imprisoned Congressmen with a view to negotiations, is described as without foundation. OUTRAGE IN TOKIO. BRITISH EMBASSY INVADED. TOKIO, Tuesday. Fourteen members of tlio Indian Patriotic Association visited the British Embassy to-day to protest against Gandhi’s imprisonment. They demanded an interview with the Ambassador, and upon being refused, smashed "windows, forced an entry to the- chancellery and scattered handbills. The police were called in and arrested four of the demonstrators. The others fled.