New Delhi, Apr. 1.
Replying to an address from the Shiah community, the Lord Irwin, alluding to the civil disobedience campaign, said it was a tragedy that men were constantly asked to believe that political typhoon, voeting up and destroying the country-side, was necessary before the sun could shine, and that she country could reach its rightful destiny only through the agency of convulsion.
The Viceroy welcomed the assurance that the Shiahs stood for orderly progress towards self-ovarnment and dissociated themselves with the civil disobedience move-
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