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Lahore, Saturday, November 15, 1924 THE government’s review of the Punjab Excise Administration Report for 1923-24 contains a lengthy examination of the problem of illicit distillation and sale of excisable articles. This practice is said to prevail on an increasing...

Lahore, Friday, November 14, 1924 THE luminous statement which Pandit Motilal Nehru made to an Associated Press representative at Allahabad regarding the joint statement issued from Calcutta, to which he was himself a signatory, calls for a more careful and...

Lahore, Thursday, November 13, 1924 WE have already referred in a general way to that part of Sir Malcolm Hailey’s speech in the Punjab Legislative Council which relates to the Sikh situation. There is, however, one aspect of the matter...

Lahore, Wednesday, November 12, 1924 THE first thing that strikes one about the speech with which Sir Malcolm Hailey opened the session of the Punjab Legislative Council on Monday is that the province again has a Governor with a personality,...

Lahore, Tuesday, November 11, 1924 THE statements recently published by the Governor-General and the Government of Bengal in connection with the Bengal Ordinance throw a most interesting sidelight on the far-reaching effects of the non-cooperation movement, and conclusively prove the...

Lahore, Sunday, November 9, 1924 THE joint statement issued by Mahatma Gandhi, CR Das and Motilal Nehru divides itself into three parts. The preamble, which is not the least important of these parts, is not only wholly unexceptionable, but is...

Lahore, Saturday, November 8, 1924 IT was in the fitness of things that the speakers at the public meeting held in Bombay on Wednesday on the occasion of the ninth anniversary of the death of Sir Pherozeshah Mehta laid stress...

Lahore, Friday, November 7, 1924 CONSIDERABLE importance attaches to the interview which Lala Harkishen Lal gave to a representative of The Tribune regarding the points on which Sir John Maynard, in his evidence before the Reforms Enquiry Committee, had contradicted...

Lahore, Thursday, November 6, 1924 PRACTICALLY every province has, both through the Press and its accredited leaders, assured Bengal of its deep and genuine sympathy with her in the hour of her trouble. Nor is this mere lip sympathy. Everyone...

Lahore, Wednesday, November 5, 1924 THE Unity Conference, which opened at Delhi on September 26, concluded its sitting on Thursday after a week’s deliberations. The problem that it had taken upon itself to solve was the most difficult and delicate...

Lahore, Tuesday, November 4, 1924 THERE is a significant passage in the reply which Sir Malcolm Hailey gave to the address presented to him by a Muslim deputation on Wednesday last, which shows that His Excellency is by no means...

Lahore, Sunday, November 2, 1924 THE report on the administration of criminal justice in Punjab during 1923 shows that while there was a perceptible fall in the number of crimes during the year, the methods by which criminals were brought...

Lahore, Friday, October 31, 1924 THE Bengal Criminal Law Amendment Ordinance is one of the most drastic engines of repression that the inventive genius of the bureaucracy in India has perfected. It is, in fact, a new and revised edition...

Lahore, Thursday, October 30, 1924 IN going through the Governor General’s ordinance and the communique issued by the Bengal Government, one question that will naturally force itself even upon the minds of those who may honestly desire to support the...

Lahore, Wednesday, October 29, 1924 PUBLIC opinion all over India is strong and unequivocal in its condemnation of the action which Lord Reading and Lord Lytton have between them taken to deal with the alleged revolutionary movement in Bengal. The...

Chandigarh, Monday, October 28, 1974 As part of its political strategy for the Indian subcontinent, the Soviet Union has been shrewdly striving for a permanent foothold in Pakistan. It has already secured India’s lasting goodwill through generous economic assistance and...

Lahore, Sunday, October 26, 1924 IT is now some months since Sir Malcolm Hailey became Governor of Punjab. The reception that was accorded to him at Lahore on Friday morning was, therefore, nothing but a formal and conventional affair, unless,...

Lahore, Saturday, October 25, 1924 FROM October 16, when the Reforms Enquiry Committee re-assembled at Simla after a month and a half’s adjournment, to October 22, the last day for which the proceedings of the committee are before us at...

Lahore, Friday, October 24, 1924 THE controversy that has recently taken place in the Press and elsewhere over the question whether a settlement of the communal problem must precede a united endeavour on the part of different communities for the...

Lahore, Thursday, October 23, 1924 ALTHOUGH Sir John Maynard appeared before the Reforms Enquiry Committee with the avowed object of removing the ‘misapprehensions’ caused and the ‘misstatements’ made by some witnesses, the evidence actually given by him contains more than...

Lahore, Wednesday, October 22, 1924 AT a time when the prevailing note in India is that of a certain soul-killing sadness and despair, when there seems to be no way out of the maze into which, in the working out...

Lahore, Tuesday, October 21, 1924 IN the latest issue of Young India, Mahatma Gandhi has written a short article in which he beautifully sums up the case for making spinning the qualification for membership of the Congress. “If a monetary...

Lahore, Sunday, October 19, 1924 THE Punjab Government has issued an important resolution stating its position with regard to the recent enhancement of water rates and the other proposals for additional taxation to meet the deficit in the budget for...

Lahore, Saturday, October 18, 1924 WE have ventured to ask Mr. Jinnah how he proposes to reconcile his view that religion must be divorced from politics with his advocacy of special representation of his community from top to bottom-not only...

Lahore, Friday, October 17, 1924 WE are bound to repeat that the position as regards the Kohat “investigation” as disclosed in the recent Simla communique is far from satisfactory. “Investigations,” says the communique “have been somewhat delayed by the failure...