Future of Indian Trade.

IT is not clear what Lord Islington means by his observation in an article in the Pall Mall Gazette that the Secretary of State in Council would prove a more effective confirming authority than the Government of India regarding matters pertaining to the development of trade and industry in India. The Pioneer assumes his lordship to mean that industrial development of India is henceforth to be directed from London, and on that basis makes the comment that the suggestion is a most mischievous one and that the present war has shown that India’s industrial salvation will have to be worked out in India without the hampering interference which has been so harmful in the past. But it is possible that this is what Lord Islington does not mean, and that all that he does mean, in his own words, is that being in the financial centre of the world the Secretary of State can easily place himself in communication with those concerned in finance and trade who will be in position to afford him expert advice.