India The Congress leaders in India have announced their intention
of setting up " Courts " which would operate side by side with the ordinary legal Courts. These voluntary Courts would be for trials both civil and criminal, and the proposal is that those who do not recognize their judgments shall be boycotted. The whole project is irrational, but that is not to say that it may not be a serious impediment to administration in India—and that no doubt is what it is designed for. The Government of India on Friday, October 10th, issued a new Ordinance enabling Provincial Governments more easily to grapple with subversive propaganda. The primary object was to enable the Bombay Government to suppress the new campaign for the non-payment of taxes in Gujarat. On Wednesday in Bombay City the police carried out the most elaborate " round-up " of Congress organizations that India has seen for a very long time.
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