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WHAT INDIA DEMANDS.

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opportunities of common endeavour bracing, Lords Reading and Peel, to Indians. That feeling could be the Maharajah of Bekanir,. the created only by giving India com- Nawab of Bhopal, the Aga Khan,! plate freedom in the form of and Mr. Shastri. It was agreed Dominion Status. Harness all that the general discussion now minorities together and much of proceeding should extend over the stitutions. As far as your Armythe discontent would disappear. mornings of three days and that) is concerned," he said, "by all Young India would not insist the order of speakers should be pre- means keep it in the hands of the upon impossible terms of federa-arranged. Viceroy. We on our part are will- tion but only upon such terma as After discussion revealing some jing to provide funds and to agree most of the Indian States were at division of opinion, the President

to statutory charges in respect of present prepared to accept. They said that the general sense the Army."

had no desire to interfere at all in that the Press should not be admit A Federal System.

the internat affairs of the Indian ted to the general discussion, but The Maharajah of Bikaner said States, but were prepared to wait should have full-impartial informa- that the ultimate attainment of until they of themselves come into tion regarding the proceedings Dominion Status was inherent in line with the ways of Young India. From three officers of the general the declaration, of polley of 1917, If states would accept a Supreme secretariat acting under the gen- and had more recently received an Court of Justice to which all mat-eral control of a committee con- authoritative endorsement. Letters in dispute between them and [sisting of Mr. Wedgwood Benn, re them aim ut that, fully

that

realising

sister their atates did not reach the end at one stride and that in the intervening. stage certain safe- guards and guarantees were Im- peratively necessary for the security of the body politic and all parts thereof.

Speaking for the Indian states, he said that linked with their devotion to the Grown was an un- faltering adherence to the British They Commonwealth of Nations.

of the Indian States were willing to take part in and make their con- tributions to the greater prosperity and contentment of India as a That could best be done whole. through a federal system of Gov- ernment composed of the States And British India.

•

RAILWAY SCANDAL.

Dismissal of British Engineer In China.

London, Yesterday.

WAS

presenting the British Delegation, Mr. Rushbrook Williams, the In- dian States, and Mr. Chinamani, the British Indian delegation.-British Wireless Service.

Earlier News.

London, Yesterday. The Round Table Conferencé The started its work, to-day, opennig sessioris at St. James's Palace is divided into two sec- tions, the first dealing with pro- cedure, and the second beginning general discus-

In the House of Commons at question time, Dr. Hugh that Mr. Dalton stated Arthur Henderson had asked the British Minister to China, Sir Miles

an important Lampson, to the circum-

sion on enquire into

the issue whether the constitution of India shall be stances of the dismissal of Mr. Valpy, the Chief Engin based upon a "unitary" ofeder-

n" scheme. der of the Canton-Hankow Railway, Reuter,

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It hitherto undecided whe- ther the meetings shall be public or private.

The Round Table Conference's British India could be referred and The Indian States were al- would voluntarily submit to its second plenary session was open- ready soveriga and autonom-jurisdiction the question would ined by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald

linked. with the effect be solved.

exhorting the delegates on the ous, being

ared for co-operation with one Crown by treaties of perpetual alliance and friendship and unity of He promised the assurance re-another and determination to suc interesta. British India derived garding British and European com-ered. whatever measure of authority it, mercial interests and pointed out might possess by devolution, but it that a contented community was a Minister should preside, and Lord would not be beyond the wealth of much better customer than a dis- Sankey be Deputy President. experience ut that table to deviso contented onc. He contended that panel of six chairmen was ap

of linking those different the units into a powerful fédéral ad- tain in ministration.

means

Young India.

main interest of

It was decided that the Prime

A

committee was

Bri-pointed from the British delega- tion, India States delegation and India was commerce,

British India delegation, namely and snid that the consuming

Lord Reading, Lord Peel, Mahara- power of 330,000,000 people their

iah of Bikanir, Maharajah of Mr. Jayakar, putting forward was a powerful asset in

hands. Even from the point of Bhopal, the Aga Khan and Mr. the point of view of the young gen-

Sastri. eration in India, said that the time view simply of material interests

It was decided that the Press be! was of the utmost importance, be- and apart from morul forces such cause if India got to-day what she as friendliness and comradeship, not admitted to the general dis- wanted she would be satisfied with absolute dominion freedom should cussions, But a many things which would be given to India in order that Brl-chosen to direct publicity through

a secretariat.-Reuter. autisfy her six months hence. rtain's trade might prosper.

Hartals Declared. you give India Dominion Status The Business Committee of the

Bombay, Yesterday. to-day, he said, in the course of a Conference decided this evening to

Demonstrations of protest few months the cry of independence recommend that when the general have been made and hartals de- will die of itself. If, on the other discussion finished the conference hand, we return empty handed, it should set up a federal relations clared in various centres against the sentence on Jawarhar Lal) A resolution to this will be the surest way of raising in committee.

Nehru. The police here made effect will be submitted to-morrow. two lathi charges in which a few volume and intensity this cry of independence."

Position of the Press.

people were injured and a number Referring to the army question, As A result of the de- lof others arrested.

not

he said that Indians would laten to cisions reached at today's meet. While dispersing a huge pro- any: safeguards suggested during ing. Lord Sankey was asked cession in New Delhi they made! the period of transition in order to to

the position as 218 arrests and 50 were slightly

accept

make it more cany and anfe for both Deputy President of the Confer-hurt, and 50 others injured in sides. As for the minorities ques-ence and a panel of six chairmen conflicts with the police in Surat,

-Reuter. tion, it could be solved by giving of the conference was set up em

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