NEWS OF THE WEEK.
AFTER a very long delay, which can never be wholly ex- plained or excused, the public has been given the full facts about affairs in the Punjab, in the Bombay Presidency, and at Delhi in the spring of 1919. The published documents include the Majority and Minority Reports of the Committee presided over by Lord Hunter ; a long review of the Reports by the Government of India ; and a letter containing the judgments of the British Government upon the whole subject. The docu- ments do not require us to change the tentative opinions which we have expressed from time to time. The suppression of the rising at Amritsar by General Dyer has naturally become for most people the central fact in all these Indian events. We cannot quarrel with this selection because as a matter of fact the rights and wrongs of General Dyer's action are co-extensive with the whole problem of governing subject races.
