Suspense in India
A comparative absence of disturbance in India has followed the measures the Indian Government has found it necessary to take, though uneasiness about the outlook has by no means been dispelled. Business is reviving in Bengal, but is very much at a standstill in Bombay, where any semblance of a demonstration is being sternly suppressed. Four months' rigorous imprisonment for writing on a pavement an announcement of a coming flag salutation, and five months for selling the Congress Bulletin, are sentences demonstrating a rigour whose repressive effects are more obvious than its constructive. Lord Lothian and his British colleagues on the Round Table Conference sub-committees left London on Thurs- day, and the degree of collaboration they secure will be some index as to the general outlook. Congress is not represented on the sub-committees. The sooner it is found possible to withdraw the emergency Ordinances in force in Bombay and Bengal, the United Provinces and the North-West Frontier Province (not, as the mis- carriage of a proof caused the Spectator to state erroneous- ly last week, throughout India), the better the outlook for the committees will be.
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