INDIAN UNREST

Wairarapa Daily Times, 26 January 1932, Page 5

INDIAN UNREST

BOYCOTT CAMPAIGN A NEW FORM OF OPPRESSION. Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received Monday, 9.30 a.m.) CALCUTTA, Monday. Tho campaign in connection with the boycott of British goods shows no signs of abating in Calcutta and Bombay, where there is organised victimisation and extortion in the bazaars by Congress agents. Indian shops in Bombay selling exclusively foreign goods are plastered with posters bearing boycott slogans, and merchants refusing to subscribe to Congress funds are threatened by gangs of hooligans. In some cases shops are looted and wrecked because the owners refused to obey the Congress mandate to close in sympathy with the arrest of tho Congress chiefs. This new form of oppression has resulted in the Bombay Stock Exchange) being virtually closed for three weeks.

A FIRM ATTITUDE. (Received Tuesday, 10.10 a.m.) ■ CALCUTTA, Monday. The Viceroy, addressing the Legislative Assembly at New Delhi, reviewed the political situation and declared that there had been no departure by himself or the Government from the path of conciliation until Congress itself had wantonly torn up the path. ‘‘No Government worth the name would hesitate to accept the challenge,” ho said. “Compromise was impossible with those who chose to break the law. There could be no relaxation of the measures adopted while circumstances made them necessary.

MARKED IMPROVEMENT.

IN INDIA’S CREDIT,

(Received Tuesday, 10.10 a.m.) CALCUTTA, Monday

In tho Legislative Assembly the Viceroy referred to the improved price of agricultural products, declaring that the country’s economic situation was sound and healthy and compared favourably with other countries. As a result of keeping the rupee linked with sterling, India’s floating debt had been reduced from £63,000,000 to £45,000,000. There was a marked improvement in India’s credit.