INDIAN UNREST

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 49, 28 January 1932, Page 7

INDIAN UNREST

GOVERNMENT’S POLICY.

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS,

FORMER VICEROY’S STATEMENT.

(United Press. Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (British official Wireless.) Reecived January 28, 11.0 a.m. RUGBY, Jan. 27.

Speaking at Leeds on the situation ia India, Lord Irwin, the former Viceroy, said that he could not doubt that the responsibility for the recent rupture lay with the Congress party. Ho thought that both the Government here arid tne Government of India had no choice but to take the action they had taken in the last few weeks. It nad been suggested that they had gone back bn the policy that was pursued when he was Viceroy.’That was a complete misrepresentation of facts. The Government disliked the application of the present policy as much as anyone else, and there was nothing vindictive about their action. Lord Irwin said that he did not suppose that if he had been in India today he would have acted any differently from the present Viceroy. EXPRESS DERAILED. CALCUTTA, Jan. 27. The Calcutta-Benares express has been derailed' for the second time in two days, this time near Patna. The rails were again tampered with._ Six carriages came off the line, but miraculously there were no casualties.. Two rioters were killed when the police fired on a violent Congress crowd who attempted to hold a meeting at Motihari, in Bihar. Several police were injured by stones which were thrown. . .

Twb girls charged with the. murder of Mr Stevens, the Comilla Magistrate, were sentenced to transportation for life to-day.