3 JANUARY 1931, Page 6

" Bombay's Christmas Gift to the Round Table Con- ference,"

as this poll was called, was indeed timely. In spite of the plentiful good will and the particularly impressive appeals of the Begum Shah Nawaz and Mrs. Subbarayan before the Conference broke up for Christ- mas, the rock of Hindu-Moslem dissension was threatening to wreck the ship. The all-India Moslem League has confirmed the maximum demands of the Moslem Con- ference at Delhi on January 1st, 1929 ; pressure from India. on both Moslem and Hindu delegations is daily increasing, and little progress is to be reported in the sub-committees dealing with the franchise, the (smaller) minorities, and the regime of the N.W. Frontier Province, * * . .