7 JANUARY 1928, Page 6

- Most non-Brahmins and the whole of the depressed classes

naturally will have nothing to say to the plan of boycott. They have much to gain and nothing to lose from the Simon Commission. A definite split has also been revealed in the Moslem League. Moslems of the North have met at Lahore and the others at Calcutta. The Calcutta Conference approved of boycott, but the Northern Conference took exactly the opposite side and paid the penalty by being disowned by Calcutta.