The Viceroy, Baron Irwin, issued to-day an Ordinance renewing, subject to certain changes, the Press Ordinance and also the Unauthorized News-sheets and Newspapers Ordinance, both of which had recently expired, The Viceroy also promulgated an Ordinance concerning the non-payment of liabilities, including taxes.
An Ordinance has been promulgated forbidding instigation acts of sedition.
Dec. 24, The Viceroy, Lord Irwin, ina lengthy statement to-day explains that he has been compelled to renew the Press ordinance, because since its expiry on October 26 the Press has not observed the restraint which had been hoped for. On the contrary, says the statement, it has been inciting to violent crimes. Its tone has especially deteriorated in the last few weeks.
Referring to the no-tax ordinance the Viceroy says for months there has been contumacious refusal land-holders in Gujerat, ins by civil disobedience volunteers, to pay land revenue with the object or bringing administration to a standstill, A similar campaign has recently been launched in the United Provinces, hence it is necessary: to empower local governments Proseeute the instigators—Reuter.
Police Charges on Demonstrators Bombay, Dec. 22.
Seventy-five persons were injured to-day as the result of a serics of lathi charges by police on _the Maidan, where a crowd assembled to participate in the ceremony of] saluting the "national" flag.
The police had previously dispersed the avowd, bat they reassembled in front of the Esplanade Police Court, which they stoned.
Two police sergeants and six constables were slightly injured, The president and four members of the local Congress "War Counil," an unlawful body which otganized the ceremony, have been ar-
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