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Show LEADERS OPPOSE REVOLT IN INDIA GAYA, Bengal. British India. Dec. 27. (By tin' Associated Press! In his inaugural address to the nll-Indlnn nationalist congress which begun Its session here Tuesday C, It. Ia, president pres-ident of the congress, declared that swaraJ (self rule) was the most Important Im-portant question of tho day and that the only mi thod for securing It wrs by non-violent, non-co-operation, ll d- mitted i hat some Indians considered non-violence Impracticable, maintaining maintain-ing that swaraj was attainable only by-force. by-force. But he pointed out that apart from the question of principle, historj re-,,. re-,,. atedly had proved the futility of DlUtion engineered by vlolenoe. which only defeated the cause of froo-dom froo-dom He emphasised the importance oi India's artlelpatlon In a great Asiatic Asi-atic federation, which lie said would replace tho Pan-Ismallc movement and onstltute a union of Asia's oppressed op-pressed nationalities |