Jan.
During the past few days much telegraphic news has come from India regarding the deliberations of two Muslim bodies which are sitting in conference, one at Lahore and the other at Calcutta, Lahore calls for nonce-operation with the Statutory Commission, while there is a different atmosphere at Calcutta where some attempt is apparently being made to find some settlement of the comminal differences between the Muslims and the Hindus, As will be seen below the latter is, of the two by far the more important. With reference to the question of ce-operation with the Statutory Commission, it has to be remembered that that body was formed with the object of reporting on the results obtained after ten years' working iggested by a preliminary' commission of inquiry convened by Mr. Montagu, and it is now interesting to see how the different people in India regard' it. One Hindu paper in Lahore ser in it nothing but a purely British parliamentary body formed:
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.