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Lahore, Sunday, September 21, 1924 IT is too much to expect that in a country of more than 300 million human beings, some of whom have not yet risen above the communal point of view, there will be a complete...

Lahore, Saturday, September 20, 1924 THE question of Indianisation of the Railways and Railway Services came up for consideration in the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday in connection with the official proposal for the separation of railway finance from general finance....

Lahore, Friday, September 19, 1924 IN connection with the great tragedy which was enacted in Kohat last week, and on one aspect of which we have already had something to say, there are a number of points which call for...

Lahore, Thursday, September 18, 1924 AT last we have some idea of the happenings at Kohat, though by no means an adequate idea. In our issue of yesterday, we published two statements on the incident, one supplied by our Special...

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Lahore, Friday, September 12, 1924 IT has scarcely even been our lot to come across a more ridiculous suggestion than that made by the Statesman in a recent with reference of Mr CR Das’ proposal that a pact should be...

Lahore, Thursday, September 11, 1924 THE suspension of the reforms in Bengal has brought a movement of a very peculiar nature into existence in that province. For the first time in many months, parties have joined hands, whose political aims...

Chandigarh, Tuesday, September 10, 1974 THE grant of a “full, free and absolute pardon” to Richard Nixon for “all offences against the United States” during his tenure will save the former President much mental anguish. His eleventh-hour resignation had already...

Lahore, Tuesday, September 9, 1924 THIS day 26 years ago, Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, the founder of this paper, was gathered to his fathers. This termination of his earthly career was, however, only the end of his physical life. The...

Lahore, Sunday, September 7, 1924 IT is now known that the recent Gandhi-Besant negotiations were not held merely for the purpose of an exchange of general views between the most powerful leader of the Congress and one of the most...

Lahore, Saturday, September 6, 1924 THE speech made by Mahatma Gandhi at a meeting of the Congress Committee at Mandvi, a telegraphic summary of which appeared in these columns yesterday, throws a flood of interesting light both upon the recent...

Lahore, Friday, September 5, 1924 IT is a matter for sincere congratulations that two of the most forceful personalities (Mahatma Gandhi and Annie Besant) in India are now agreed as to what we for our part have always regarded as...

Lahore, Thursday, September 4, 1924 THE Government has at last made up its mind to say a few words about Judge McCardie’s extraordinary summing up in the O’Dwyer-Nair case. And what words they are! In going through them, the first...

Lahore, Wednesday, September 3, 1924 NOW that in Bengal, as in the Central Provinces, the working of the reforms has been suspended by the fiat of official authority, it will not be out of place to make a few general...

Lahore, Tuesday, September 2, 1924 THE keynote of two out of the four speeches made by Sir Malcolm Hailey in reply to the address recently presented to him at Ambala is the passionate earnestness with which he threw himself into...

Lahore, Sunday, August 31, 1924 IF only the gods at Whitehall practised half of what they preached, the millions of human beings whom they have taken under their “care” would entrain sentiments quite different from what they now do about...

Lahore, Saturday, August 30, 1924 THE communique issued by the Government of Bengal on August 27, announcing the suspension of reforms in that province for the time being, raises several issues of vital importance to the country. The proceedings of...

Lahore, Friday, August 29, 1924 IT is the weakness of an irresponsible Government that where the question is one of pacifying the people or applying the healing balm to their lacerated heart, it is never prompt in its action. If...

Lahore, Thursday, August 28, 1924 THE Swarajists in the Bengal Legislative Council scored one of their greatest victories by their success in throwing out the demand for the ministers’ salaries at the Tuesday sitting of the Council in the face...

Lahore, Wednesday, August 27, 1924 IT is now more than a week since it was stated in a Calcutta telegram that Pandit Motilal Nehru had received an important communication from Mahatma Gandhi, making certain proposals for the settlement of differences...

Lahore, Tuesday, August 26, 1924 MADRAS has in one respect set an excellent example for the rest of India. The Legislative Council of the Province all but unanimously adopted a resolution at a recent meeting requesting the Local Government to...

Lahore, Sunday, August 24, 1924 THE most obvious feature of the evidence so far recorded by the Reforms Enquiry Committee is the all but complete unanimity of opinion among the witnesses both as to the need for immediate further advance...