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----------------------------------+----------+-------------- Bombay .. .. .. ..| 39 | 17 Madras .. .. .. ..| 127 | 10 Bengal .. .. .. ..| 110 | 16 Eastern Bengal .. .. ..| 56 | 15 Central Provinces .. .. ..| 23 | 2 United Provinces .. .. ..| 58 | 5 Punjab .. .. .. ..| 53 | 6 NOTE 12 INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS SUBSIDIES TO ITS SUPPORTERS IN ENGLAND. The following resolutions passed by the Indian National Congress show that considerable financial support has been regularly given by that body towards the expenses of its London organ, _India_, and of the British committee it co-operates with. MADRAS, 1898. "That a sum of Rs.60,000 be assigned for the expenses of the British Committee and the cost of the Congress publication _India_, and also for the expenses of the Joint-General Secretary's Office, and that the several circles do contribute, as arranged, either now or hereafter in Committee for the year 1899." AHMEDABAD, 1902. "That with a view to meet the balance required to defray the expenses of _India_ and the British Committee a special delegation fee of Rs.10 be paid by each delegate in addition to the usual fee now paid by him with effect from 1902." MADRAS, 1903. "That a sum of Rs.10,500 be assigned for the expenses of the British Committee and that the several Congress circles do contribute the amount allotted to each." BOMBAY, 1904. "That a sum of L700 be assigned for the expenses of the British Committee and that the several Congress circles do contribute the amount allotted to each." NOTE 13 AN ENGLISH SOCIALIST "MANIFESTO." The support given to Indian Nationalists by a certain class of politicians in England goes sometimes to such lengths that the tolerance extended to them is open to very serious question. For instance, in a London newspaper which calls itself "the Organ of Social Democracy," _Justice_ there appeared on August 27 a "Manifesto" headed "The Infamies of Liberal Rule in India," which contained, along with much indiscriminate denunciation of British tyranny, the outrageous statement that Savarkar, who is now undergoing trial in Bombay on grave charges, including the abetment of murder, had been arrested in England "for an alleged political offence, and in order that he might not
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