Who Really was Floored.

REFERRING to the recent police debate in the Supreme Council, the Englishman writes:- “What probably floored the Pandit most was Sir William Vincent's quotation from Mrs. Besant who declared that the vest population of India, especially the villagers, show preference to the English official over the Indian.” It is not at all clear that this was the actual effect of the quotation. On the contrary most of us think that the tables were completely turned when Sir William had to state in reply to a question by Mr. Bannerjee that the date of the speech was 1911. Everybody knows that the India of 1918 is not the India of 1911, nor is Mrs. Besant of 1918 the same person as Mrs. Besant of the earlier year.