India There is little new to say about India. The
sense of all the messages to the Times has been that though violent demonstrations continue in various parts of India there is a tendency to make any further declarations of policy wait upon the proposals of the Simon Com- mission. The first volume of the Report has apparently neither worsened nor improved the situation. The official survey of events published by the India Office points out that the whole tribal trouble, which has by no means subsided, has been engineered from Peshawar. Unscrupulous propagandists despatched emissaries carry- ing to the tribesmen baskets containing- blood-stained clothing. The blood, often provided by local butchers, was to -be taken as evidence of massacres. The Simla correspondent of • the' Times unexpectedly reports that newly-elected members of the Legislative Assembly who have arrived for the approaching session profess satis- faction with Volume I of the Report. These men are obviously opposed to the. Congress, but at least one of them informed the Times correspondent that. he had been a boycotter of the Commission. * * *
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