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HAVING examined at some length the findings of the Government of India both on the circumstances leading to and attending the Kohat riots and the manner in which they were officially handled, it remains for us now to notice briefly...

Lahore, Sunday, December 14, 1924

Lahore, Saturday, December 13, 1924

Licence drama

IN assessing the value of the findings arrived at by the Government of India in regard to the Kohat tragedy, its origin, the circumstances attending it, and the manner in which it was handled, the first thing to be borne...

Lahore, Wednesday, December 10, 1924 IF the passing away of any man, who had died full of years and of honours, can be rightly mourned by his countrymen, that of Dr Subramaniya Iyer is so mourned by the whole of...

IT was a characteristically simple and lucid speech with which Mahatma Gandhi opened the proceedings of the eleventh session of the Punjab Provincial Conference in the Bradlaugh Hall on Sunday morning. The keynote of the speech, as of the two...

Lahore, Sunday, December 7, 1924 AT the time of writing, we do not have before us the official communication concerning the decision of His Majesty’s Government on the Lee report, which was to be issued on Friday evening. But judging...

Lahore, Saturday, December 6, 1924 THE Punjab Provincial Conference meets today under circumstances at once the gravest and the most auspicious in its history. Except for a brief period in 1918 and 1919, the relations between the two principal communities...

Lahore, Friday, December 5, 1924 OPINION may and does differ as to whether it was at all a dignified thing for Sir Malcolm Hailey, in his joint reply to the addresses presented to him at Gujranwala, to refer to the...

Lahore, Thursday, December 4, 1924 TO us in Punjab, the address delivered by Sir JC Bose at the Patna University convocation, salient extracts from which will be seen elsewhere in this issue, is of peculiar importance, not only on account...

Lahore, Wednesday, December 3, 1924 THERE is one consistent game which the bureaucracy has been playing ever since it became clear that the Swarajya party had the support of the majority of politically minded Indians. It has lost no opportunity...

Lahore, Tuesday, December 2, 1924 AT last, the Governor of Bengal has seen fit to give a direct and categorical reply to Mr CR Das. The occasion was not ill-chosen. St Andrew’s Dinner in Calcutta cannot, of course, be compared...

Punjab Provincial Conference Lahore, Sunday, November 30, 1924 IT is now definitely settled that Pandit Motilal Nehru will preside over the ensuing session of the Punjab Provincial Conference at Lahore. Usually, though not invariably, a provincial conference is presided over...

Lahore, Saturday, November 29, 1924 WE have already drawn attention to the fact that at its last meeting, the Punjab Legislative Council went back upon the decision of its predecessor and sanctioned a demand made by the government for the...

THE recent debate on the enhancement of water rates in the Punjab Legislative Council is chiefly interesting as it reveals the mentality of a large majority of the rural members of our legislature. The whole of the government’s case for...

THE Guru-Ka-Bagh incidents form a unique chapter in the history of the Akali struggle in Punjab, exhibiting the spirit of self-sacrifice and unflinching determination of the Akalis on the one hand and the excesses of an irresponsible bureaucracy on the...

WE are now in a position to form some idea of the net outcome of the deliberations that have just taken place at Bombay. There were three issues of outstanding importance before those assembled. The first, which concerned only the...

Lahore, Tuesday, November 25, 1924 IT is with the sincerest pleasure that we learn from an Associated Press telegram that the prospects of Liberal reunion with the Congress were brighter on Saturday than ever before. “Friday’s discussions in the committee...

Lahore, Sunday, November 23, 1924 AT the time of writing, we do not know what took place at Friday’s meeting of the All-Party Conference. Judging, however, from the attitude of several parties, as disclosed in the statements recently made by...

Lahore, Saturday, November 22, 1924 It is impossible to think of two men who differ more widely or more fundamentally from each other in their temperament, training, experience of public life and their whole outlook upon public questions than do...

Lahore, Friday, November 21, 1924 Who says that the proceedings of our Legislative Councils are not enlivened by occasional flashes of humour, even though the humour may be of the unconscious variety? In our own council, at any rate, such...

Lahore, Thursday, November 20, 1924 WHILE we are pleased that Mr CY Chintamani, Secretary to the National Liberal Federation, has requested members of the council of the federation to attend the conference of all parties which Maulana Mahomed Ali has...

Lahore, Wednesday, November 19, 1924 We are constrained to say that the leaderette in the latest issue of Young India, titled “Is it compulsion?”, which we reproduced in these columns yesterday, is not distinguished by that clear thinking which is...

Lahore, Tuesday, November 18, 1924 EXCEPT on one point, the reply given by Mahatma Gandhi to the critics of the Calcutta agreement in an article in Young India is both satisfactory and convincing. He frankly admits that he made a...