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Show REVOLT IN INDIA FACESBRITISH Nationalist Movement Causes Cancellation of Prince's Intended Visit NW YORK, Sept. 14 India's : attitude toward the Prince of Wales ' Is one of cold Indifference If not actual hostility," according to Dr. N v Hardlker director of the Ind'n Information bureau who made public Iputdlc liere today certain phases of I the Nationalist movement whih. he said, had caused King George fb cancel by royal decree on August 17 i he proposed visit of his heir apparent appar-ent to India next winter. It had been announced that the prince would go to India for the purpose pur-pose of Inangu-ating reform legislation legisla-tion in connection with elaborate Durbar Dur-bar ceremonies at Delhi. The Duke of Connaught. formerly governor general gen-eral of Canadn. the decree stated, Will perform the royal functions In Ihe prince's pi o .- IMsl ON I I I OF II iSSf v Developments In the next few months in India," said Dr Hardlker. promise to be more fundamentally significant than any that have oicurred since the Indian War of Independence 01 'Sepoj Rebellion' of 1SS7 The year 1980 has been filled with cxclte-ment cxclte-ment and hange. From laat March until May .a period of about 60. days. 125 strikes occurred, M of them In the Bombaj 'Mstrlet alone. Thne labor outbreaks typify a new phase In the discontent of th masses. "The second great movement of the present yeai has been the attitude of the people toward the Turkish peace treaty settlement. India has. besides It? Hindu population of 2S0, 000,000, a Mohammedan population of 70,000.-000. 70,000.-000. Previous to 1910 the British government weakened the Nationalist movement by encouraging the separation separa-tion of the Hindu and Mohammedan. Today, for the first time in its long history, the Hindu and Mohammedan are united nnd arc pledged to work In concert until the last obstacle to Indian freeilom has been removed. 'The entire Mohammedan world protests the loss of Us power and prestige as embodied In the Turkish treaty end ii Is to obtain a modification modifica-tion uf thai surrender that tho Mos lems of India united with the Hindus In nbtlfylng the viceroy In India on July 1 thai Ihe boycott of the govern-' men! by the entlri population would be started on August I. The signlflo- ! ant feature of this action is tha'. India I today presents a united people for ihe first time In Its ling history." in Hardlker said (he Hindus and Moslems in the Nationalist movement desire to become a Sel.VgoSei n'.iiK, autonomous dominion of the British Kmplrc, hut if this is no granted soon that India would become another! "Sinn Fein Ireland' with 800,000,0001 instead of 4,000,000 rebels within five I years. Hr declared that the British I af:. ;- Miu . i irs ,,f i i -ling India, had impoverished the country More than) :tn p, r i cm i ' ' : ii.it i he s.tid. are i illiterate and half of the entire population popu-lation subsists on what would be for each native the equivalent of but one square meal S day. British government govern-ment statistics, he said show that dur-i lug the past century .. ."on. ooii persons have died In India from starvation! alone. The death rate from disease alope :n India In IMS, It Hardlker said, was rtj.il per thousand, while In J ipan it was 23 o. Germany 19.0, England Eng-land 14.0, I'nlted Slates U 5. Australia I 10:0 and New Zealand 9 0 per thousand. |