The Indian Tangle The Government of India does well to
circulate a weekly 'appreciation of the situation. In that published on Monday there is a clear analysis of the locall disorders, and it is pointed out that those at Dacca, Rangoon, and Delhi, for instance, were not really clashes between the authorities and the public. Nevertheless, rioting is still reported in several Provinces, accompanied by non- payment of taxes and sustained picketing. There is no lessening of the strain. On Friday, May BOth, Lord Irwin promulgated two special Ordinances,- the purpose of which is " to prevent the instigation in pursuance of the political movement to refuse the payments lawfully due," and to counter the boycotting of public servants. A Congress "war council" at Bombay offers open defiance, and on Monday some 500 women picketed the cloth shops.
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