The announcement of the personnel of the Statutory Commission to quire into the working of the Iadian reforms has so far been received quietly, Colonel Gidney, representative of Anglo-Indians and domictied Europeans in the Assembly, welcomed the Commission and said that if the Commission were boycotted, and! Parliament therefore refused proceed with the investigation, the Indians would have themselves. to thank for retarding the hands of the reform clock.
On the other hand, Indian circles fre very much disappointed at the ibsenee of Indians from the Commis-
Despite fog and frost several members of the House of Commons: arrived at tive o'clock in the morn-dig in order to secure their seats.
The interest in to-day's session centred on thy announcement made} by the Premier, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, concerning the Statutory Commission to enquire into the working of the Indian reforms, The Commicsion, which does not Anelude @ native of India, will consist of the Rt. Hon, Sir John Simon, X.c., Liberal M, P, for Spen Valley, '4s "Chairman; "Viscount Burnham, the President of the Imperial Press Conference; Lord Strathcona; the Hon. Edward Cadogun, Conservative M. P. dor Finchley; the Rt. Hon, Stephen Walsh, Vice-Chairman the Labour Party; Col. the Rt. Hon.
Lane-Fox, Secretary for! Mines; and Major' Clement Richard Attlee, Labour M, P. for Limehouse! and author of "The Social Work Sir Tei Sapru declared to-day that the Commission would not inspire confidence and would not com. tard public support, Sur Abdur Rahim, a leading Muslim, suid that a seviove blunder had been committed and expressed the hope that the British Parliament would refuse to. sanction the Commission unk Indians themselves were adequately. represented,
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