The Government of India’s Leniency.

REFERRING to the manner in which the Press Act has been administered, the Pioneer writes:- “The Government of India have rather laid themselves open to criticism for leniency in his matter.” This is our own opinion also, but the Pioneer ought to be the last journal in the country to complain of this leniency. It cannot have forgotten the savage attack it made upon His Majesty’s Indian troops at the commencement of the war, an attack which experience has since proved to have been no better than calumny. Does it complain that no action was taken against it in that connection? Nor are some of the brothers-in-arms of the Pioneer in a better way. Who can have forgotten so soon the campaign of calumny and vituperation waged against Lord Hardinge and the Government of India in connection with the transfer of capital from Calcutta, or more recently against Mr. Montagu in connection with the release of Mrs. Besant?