NORTHCLIFFE'S STATEMENT

meetings, have the direct effect of stirring up the
natives to crime, while the Indian native news-
papers, in language well understood by the natives,
urge the removal of white men from India.

GANDHI'S MOTOR-CAR

'Reuter's chief correspondent informs me that
fresh extremist newspapers are being started here
with great rapidity. In regard to Indian crimes,
Mr. Gandhi's defenders have several defences:
first, that the crimes are committed by those who
have gone beyond his? control. But I suggest that
newspapers at home carefully reprint his speeches
as reported in his myriad newspapers. You can
then judge their effect.

* Others of his defenders liken these outrages to
events in the French Revolution, asserting that
they are the usual road to freedom. Gandhite
newspapers claim that Indian progress is entirely
due to native ability and that the British Empire
was saved by the efforts of Indian troops. These
newspapers defy the British Government to arrest
Mr. Gandhi.

* %Mr. Gandhi urges what he calls the "complete
Indianisation" of India, by which natives would
return to native simplicity. But he personally uses
fully modern methods, such as trains, telegraphs,
telephones, posts, and, particularly, a rapid motor-
car. As in 1857 and 1897, ^e Indian Government
is showing extreme patience. Civilised Hindus and
Mohammedans, who are loyal to a stable govern-
ment, who are themselves threatened by extre-
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