SPEAKING at the prize-giving ceremony of the Dacca College the other day, His Excellency Lord Carmichael strove hard to defend the action of his Government in regard to the wholesale internments under the Defence of India Act. His Excellency said that the evidence on which the Government acted had come from persons who stated they themselves had been murderers or had helped to commit murders, that Government did not believe their evidence in every detail but as true on the whole, and that Government was justified in doing so was shown by the discovery of arms and ammunition "just where these confessions led officers of the Government to look for them". No doubt the officers of the Government have gathered circumstantial evidence that points to the conclusions they have arrived at.
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