The Wanganui Herald. (Published Daily.) WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1920 INDIAN AFFAIRS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160797, 3 November 1920, Page 4

The Wanganui Herald. (Published Daily.) WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1920 INDIAN AFFAIRS.

A few weeks ago itwwass s stated in' Home papers that Mr' Winston Churchill had been mentioned as the next Viceroy of India. Nothing more has been heard of the suggsstion, so presumably his unfitness for the post baa been realised. It is now stated in recent cables that the Hon. Austin Chamberlain is mentioned. He would be a traders’ Viceroy and not much beyond, but at all' events would be a more conciliatory character than Mr Churchill. That conciliatory qualities of a high order will be demanded of the new Viceroy is beyond question. Indian flies show that the well-known Indian agitator, Gbandi—who will be remembered as -filling a similar role among the Indip, coolies in the Transvaal some fifteen years ago—is meeting with much support from his countrymen in the wider field of operations willed India furnishes. Recently he and his brother, Ali, completed a tour through Central and Upper India which was described as a veritable triumph so far as popular support was concerned. So encouraged was Qbandi at the results that he declared that India would have self-government within a year at most. The great weapon he is advocating now is non co-operation with the whites on the part of native officials and legislators, and he has gained many adherents to this weapon. Students and native professors at many colleges are refusing to co-operate with the white staffs, in many other walks of life similar action is bearing fruit, and one incident that has caused a sensation is the withdrawal frpm the Viceroy’s Council itself of Malaviys, on© of the most prominent of its native members. All this does not mean that Indians, are declining to take part in the Government of the country, hut merely that they refuse to work with the whites. On the contrary, they are preparing an energetic election campaign for the various Councils, and. their object Is the return of all Indian candidates, and as few whites as possible, none of them at all, in fact, is what they are aiming at. If they even partially succeed, they are to complicate matters in India very considerably, and the new Viceroy, whoever he be, is certain to have his hands full.