New Britain herald., 1930-03-10
Labor Party Members Dis patch Messages to La hore Asking Natives to Consider Conference.

London. March 10 R}-An Anglo Indian round table conference to settle or soothe the political tur- moil affecting the 300,000,00O people Of India speaking 179 different lan- Euages in 500 states seems likely 10 take place in London during 1880.
 The government of Ramsay Mac Donald already has invited Nation alists to such a conference but the Indian congress declined to partici- pate in any conference until they are assured in advance that one of it's results be a greater measure of home rule.
 The Simon commission report. which will recommend some form of government 10 replace the ten-year trial government of the dynarchy. will be published almost any day now, and it is rumored that the In dian Nationalists may find enough satisfaction in it 10 insure their presence at a conference in London.
 Suggests Solution
 Mahatma Gandh, after changing his political strategy from passive resistance to sponsor campaign for Indian independence at the Nation- alist congress just ended at Lahore, opened a side door through which an impasse can be avertcd
 The time must comc," he said, "When there may be a fight to a finish with ones back to the wall but if the British government in vites the Indian Nationalist congress to a conference 10 discuss and frame, not any scheme, but a. scheme definitely for an independent govern ment, and if it fulflls other condi- tions suitable to such a, conference, l take it the leaders of the congress would respond gladly. There must be some such stage. Whether it is far off or near depends upon how we utilize or waste this year of grace"
 Meanwhile messages have been dispatched 10 Lahore from IS mem- bers of the labor party in the house CT commons urging the NatiOnalistS not 10 reject entirely the labor gov ornmont's plan for round table con- ference in London 10 solve India's problem.
 India taken as geographical whole was governed by the British under an absolute and patriarchal system until 1880, the year William t'Wart Gladstone became prime min- lster- He came into office pledged 10 emancipate the subject races of the British empire. His policy on home rule for Ireland is we'll known. AS to India, he sent out Lord Ripon as Niceroy and tried out the same governmental concessions then being made to the Irish Nationalists. Lord lIpon caused the introduction of the Ebert bill, named after Sir Courtcn- ay 1lbcrt, a lawyer who drafted it, which would have abolished the eNtra-terrltorial rights enjoyed by Englishmen in India and made them subject to trial before native judges. The Calcutta raid resulted. Mount ed volunteer forces of white plant CTS rode into Calcutta from Bchar and Assam and camped outside the government headquarters. Their aIoNed object was to "protcct" the NiCeroy from any outbreak of the white population against his per- sonal safety. In reality the raid was to call attention of the world 10 the fact that such outbreak was possible, and that the volunteers themselves might he part of it. Lord ,Ripon had the Ebert bill with drawn.
 Shortly thereafter the Indian Na- tionalist congress came into being. some say the congress represented nobody but it's 2O.000 members. others assert it is the voice of In dia. The year l9GO may possibly sec which Of these interpretations is correct.