AA00000589 V66 N02 ( .Pdf )

No. 1,061 Old S e r ie s . ; No. 967. New S e r ie s , j FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1916. "Registered at the G.P.O. 5 P rice...... 3D as a N ew spaper. ) By P ost 3£d Notes and News ... ...................... 9 The “ New Way to India” : A Pan- The Heavy Hand... ........................12 German Dream............................15 opinion upon any particular question, and when it is “ Some American Opinions on Overcrowded Jails in Bengal and the Secretary of f?tate will be wise to take the hint.. India” ............... the Punjab......... ............... ... 15 ... 1................ 12 Woman Suffragists and India : Letter to the Editor: Speeches by Lady Muir-Mac Municipal Trading Licences in kenzie, Sir Krishna Gupta, Sir The Council of the Bombay Presidency Association the Transvaal .............. ... 13 Mancherjee Bhownaggree, and The “ Times ” on Mismanagement others (Special Report) .........16 has resolved that, having regard to the,arbitrary cha in Mesopotamia ......................14 The Education of Women in Sir Pertab Singh on India and the - India: A Record of Existing racter of the provisions *of the. Press Act of 1910,. and War ......................................... 14 Agencies ...................................17 to th» public dissatisfaction and discontent occasioned Indian War Finance: The Question Indian Affairs in Parliament: of a Special Loan ......................15 (Special Report) ............... ... 18 by the manner in which* it has been enforced in the case of several newspapers, and recently in the case of “ New India,” a representation should be submitted NOTES AND NEWS. to the Government by the Association pointing out the — *+------ oppressive character of the Act and its administration and asking for its repeal. A committee, consisting of ELEGRAMS from Bombay announce the holding in Sir Narayan Chandavarkar, Mr. B. G. Horniman, Mr. that city of a great meeting of protest against the D. N. Bahadurji, Mr. M. A. Jinnah, and the honorary India Consolidation Act Amendment Bill. Sir Dinshaw secretaries, has been appointed to draft the memorial. Petit, Bart., presided, ancf was supported (says the “Times” correspondent)^ the leading representatives Dewan Bahadur Sir S. Subramania Aiyar presided of all communities. A resolution was carried urging over a large meeting which was held at the Victoria the Government to abandon this “ retrograde and highly Public Hall in Madras on June 12, to protest against controversial measure,” and condemning the manner the action of the Government in demanding security in which it was introduced in the House of Lords with from “ New India.” Mr. L. A. Govindaraghava Aiyar out the previous knowledge of the people of India, in moving a resolution demanding the repeal of the “ whose rights are deeply affected.” Similar meetings Press Act said that many of them, might not agree with have been held in other centres. • Mrs. Besant in her views on politics, or with the vehe ment language used by her in “ N*ew India,” but the Many of the clauses of the Bill arouse strong pro two ideals which she always placed before her readers tests (observes the “ Times”), and the maftner of its were the maintenance of the British connexion under introduction at a time when controversial measures are any circumstances, and the avoidance of all attempts eschewed is greatly resented, but the opposition centres at unconstitutional agitation. on the provision empowering the Provincial Legislatures to abrogate the established right of* citizens to sue the The Press Association of India have resolved to ask Secretary of State. An attempt, in fact, is being made the Viceroy to receive a deputation consisting of Indian* to get behind the interpretation by the Privy Council journalists from all provinces in order to demand the in what is known as the “ Moment case” of 1912 (L.R. repeal of the Press Act. Among the members of the Indian Appeals, Vol. 40, p. 48) of a phrase in the deputation are Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, Mr, Government of India Act of 1858 to the effect that every Surendranath-Banerjea, Mr, G. A. Natesan,.Mr. Sach- person has “ the same remedies” against the Secretary chtdananda Sinha, and several Mahomedan journalists. of State in Council as he might have had against the East India Company. The “ Amrita Bazar Patrika,” of Calcutta, has re called how, in May, 1913, an order was served, without The point (says the “ Manchester Guardian”) is of previous warning, upon the keeper of its printing works undoubted importance to subjects of the Crown in to deposit the maximum security of Rs. 5,000. No India, as a communique issued by the Government at reason was given, but the order, which emanated from Simla a month ago implicitly acknowledged. No less the Government of Bengal, stated that it was issued important from the Imperial point of view (it continues) in connexion with an article which discussed an Assam is the Indian objection to the procedure adopted. A police case. The article, says the “ Patrika,” was con bad impression has been created by the introduction of sidered by some; eminent lawyers who held it to be the Bill in the Lords at a time when public attention entirely efree from anything which could be construed is absorbed in issues of tremendous moment, and with into “ hatred or contempt of any Government established out the preliminary discussion' in India which is held by law.” Upon enquiry, it was elicited that the Govern to be a right under the great Act of 1858. These are ment of Bengal had had no Land in the matter, but that considerations (the “ Guardian” concludes)which affect the action was takers by the Government of India on the peace and contentment of India, and “ we Jiave no the ’motion of the Government of Assam. The doubt that they are present to the'minds of Mr. Austen “ Patrika” is* inclined to think that in Mrs. Besant’s Chamberlain and his colleagues.” * case also the initiative has come from the supreme and not from the local d!ove*rnment. The public has quickly learned how far they are present to the minds in question. Mr. Chamberlain, A telegram has been received announcing in the received on Tuesday last (July 11) a deputation from briefest language that Mrs. Besant has been prohibited the Indian Section of the London Chamber of Com from entering the Bombay Presidency under the provi merce, which urged him not to proceed further with the sions of .the Defence of India Act. obnoxious clause. Pie was told that numerous repre sentations on the subject had been received from the News of the recent English, French, and Russian Chambers of Commerce in India : but alb he had to say successes has been received with the utmost pleasure by way of reply was that he was unable to withdraw in India (telegraphed Reuter’s correspondent at Simla the clause. We regret the decision, which betrays an on July 8). Both princes and people continue their unhappy ignorance of Indian questions. It is seldom generous war gifts. that the Anglo-Indian community is united with Indian The Nawab of Maier Kotla has lent his house in Simla, where No. 2. V o l. XLVI. I O' INDIA. July 14, 1916 the Government will accommodate iilty convalescent officers in a The Government of India have sanctioned the recruit nursing home. The Raja of Dhar has offered to pay all expenses ment of one company of Dekhani and Konkani Brah for six wounded officers in the Roberts Home at Indore. The Maharaja of Benares has given the Mint House, in Benares., to mins for the Indian Army. It will be attached to the house 150 patients, and will bear all expenses. He .has also given 116th Mahrattas, which has hitherto been composed of a petrol launch for use in Mesopotamia. The Raja of Faridkot ; four companies of Konkani Mahrattas, and two com recently collected 18,000 rupees to purchase motor-ambulances for panies eac£i of Dekhani Mahrattas and Dekhani Mussul Indian troops. The Durbars of Baroda, Bahawalpur, Faridkot, mans. and Kharsia, have all presented a number of horses as tree gifts. The Maharaja of Patiala recently contributed 21,000 rupees to the Red Gross Council of the St. John Ambulance Association, which has also received a splendid collection of comforts from.the General Smuts telegraphed on July 9 that Tanga was people of New Zealand. From Rady Chelmsford and the wives occupied by his troops on the morning of July 7. The of the provincial Governors downwards the women of India con enemy offered only slight resistance and evacuated the tinue their splendid efforts in aid of the war hospitals in the town after destroying the waterworks. The work of provision of comforts for the troops. clearing the Germans from the north-east corner of their protectorate is now completed, Tanga being the At the suggestion of the Maharaj Rana of Dholpur coast terminus of the railway from Moshi, in the Usam- a number of Indian princes, including the Maharajas bara highlands, and the rival to Dar-es-Salaam for of Gwalior; Patiala, Kashmir, Jaipur, Bikanir, Kotah, premier place among the ports of German East Africa. Panna, and Jind, the Rao of Cutch, and the Begum of In November, 1914, an attack on Tanga was made from the Bhopal, have issued an appeal to the ruling princes and sea. On the evening of the 2nd one and a half battalions, con chiefs for contributions to a Lord Kitchener Memorial sisting of British and Indian Regular troops and Imperial Service Fund, to be devoted to some permanent and useful troops, were landed within two miles of the town, which was incorrectly reported to be weakly held. The force at once became object to be decided on by the Viceroy in consultation heavily engaged, and was compelled to fall back.

Load more