20 JUNE 1925, Page 3

News from India has been reassuring of late. We cannot

say what may result from the death last Tuesday of Mr. Das, the leader of the Swarajist Party in Bengal. Mr. Das was usually counted an extremist, but recently he had shown signs of being anxious to keep the Swaraj movement in constitutional channels and to discourage the revolutionaries. It is said that he had a certain hold over them—less for political reasons than because he had defended them as advocate in many of the sedition trials and had secured acquittals. Hence the results of his death may be unfortunate, for although the Swaraj political movement will be weakened, its activities may be driven underground to re-emerge in revolutionary outbreaks. * *