[Swedish Invention With Cypher Combination Stockholm, Jan. 26.
Rudolf Iso of Stockholm, has invented a locking device, viithout key, for securing an. automobile against theft during the absence of the owner.
Instead of a key a cipher combination is used that can be locked and opened by simply turning a knob and pressing a button. While locked it makes impossible the starting of the car, and the lock permits up to 16,000 different comtions. The invention has been patented and tested with satisfactory results—Reuter fortune, but said that he did not think that the majority of six votes in favour of the motion had decided the issue for all India for all tim He added that the Commission had their own plans and would carry through their work to the real advantage of India.
Feb, 20.
Truge processions carrying ba ners. inscribed "Go back, Simo and "Boycott Foreign Goods, partiularly Cloth" paraded the streets of North and South Calcutta today and subsequently congregated and swore an oath not to wear British cloth until swaraj had been attained—Reuter.
Council of State's Decision to Assist Commission Delhi, Feb. 22.
The Council of State has adopted, by 34 votes to 31, a motion appoint ing a committee to participate in the work of the Simon Commission.
The motion was proposed by Sir Maneckjee Dadabhoy who, advising "Take what you can get and fight for more," urged India not to throw away her golden opportunity of accelerating the progress of reforms by_sulking like schoolboys.
Pundit Desikachara. recommended that, since it was not practical politics to achieve freedom by re-Yolation, Indians should, by intel-Tigent ce-operation, obtain absolute control of the Government of India with the help of Parliament.
'Sir Sankaran Nair expressed the opinion that the committee could influence the recommendation of the Commission. Anyway, he declared, it had an excellent opportunity' for submitting a report embodying a constitution for presentation to England, America and the rest of the civilised world as India's minimum demand.—Reuter.
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