At Allahabad

A public meeting to be held on Friday is being arranged to ask for the withdrawal of the internment order [against G.A. Arundale, B.P. Wadia and Annie Besant, issued on June 7, 1917 by the Acting Chief Secretary of Madras, Lionel Davidson]. It is expected that the Hon’ble Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya will preside. A large number of leading Allahabad citizens who have hitherto kept aloof from the Home Rule League for one reason or other propose now to join it. The Hon’ble Dr. Tej Bahadur Sapru, President of the United Provinces Congress Committee, has sent a telegram to the Home Secretary, Simla, this morning conveying the protest of his committee against the internment orders and saying that the action of the Madras Government will excite the public mind throughout India and the only consequence will be stronger agitation, and that the committee views the new policy with apprehension and suggests that the Governor-General may direct local Governments generally not to embark upon it.

Corrections and clarifications:

In the above article, the dateline was erroneously given as June 19, 2017

instead of June 19, 1917

. The error is regretted.