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Show I ENGLISH JUST I TELLS OF HA HI' Salt Lake, March 24. The Honor- m able Jtiatlce C G. Spencer of the su- H preme court of the province of Ma- M dras, India, is a visitor in Salt Lake, H accompanied by Mrs. Spencer. They H are stopping at the Hotel Utah and M are on their way to England for a ji i visit. Thev expect to remain there j until next June, when they will return H to India via the Suez canal route. H Justice Sp'encer last night gave an H encouraging account of conditions in K 'India. For some time after the out- j breat of the war financial and busi- H ness conditions were bad, but trade j, ivaa improving recently, he said, and j merchanlB were in bettor spirits. Jute H' mill owners especially, he said, were 1 prospering, as there was a great de- M mand for Jute products at the pres- H cnt time. r India generally, said the justice, is HI, loyal to Great Britain. Many of the H native chiefs and rajahs were donat- M ing liberaly of their means to the h support of the empire, he added, and H they take a keen Interest In the prog- i ress '?t itho war. HI Plots Are Defeated. Hi Among the more remote tribes, and H in the more remote settlements, he K said he bolleved the natives hardly i knew the war was in progress. It j- was loo far away frpm them, and they r were too Ignorant to fully comprehend K its significance, he said. H There have "been no mutinies of a t very serious nature, Justice Spencer U saldj Trhen. mention was made of press t reporto concerning uprisings among J the natives. In several caacs, he said, H plots were discovered before the plans H matured, and an end put to them be- M fore they could be consummated. H . Justice Spencer did not regard such H outbreaks or attempts to stir up trou- m ble as helnj? serious. The British, gov- H eminent In India, ho said, had such j matters well in hand. H Japan Gets Benefit Japan, is "benefiting by war trade 1 with. India, according to Justice Spen- Hit - ' 5 cer. Much trade that formerly went to Great Britain, he said, now went to Japan, and Japanese, merchantmen are doinglargo volumes, of trade at Calcutta. When so many troops were being transported by England to the Dardanelles and other points Indian bhlppers wore seriously handicapped by the lack of bottoms 'for shipping their products, said the justice. Now, however, the situation is somewhat relieved, he added. Thero are four provincial supreme courts in India, twelve judges sitting in the one for the province of Madras, Mad-ras, of which Justice Spencer is a member. Appeals are made to theso courts from tho district icourto of each province. Important cases, in some Instances, may bo appealed from the provincial supremo court to the privy council in England. oo |