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234 spot at Solan, close to where he peacefully passed away at sunset on June 29th.

At the memorial meeting held at Lahore by Mr. Rudra’s old students, Pandit Raghubar Dyal Shastri, an old professor of St. Stephen’s College and Principal of the Lahore Sanatan College, said that “it was chiefly through the efforts of the late Mr. Rudra that Martial Law was not declared at Delhi during April 1919”.

One of the serious defects of the Reform Scheme inaugurated in India by the British Government in 1919 is that it contains no Bill of Rights, no constitutional guarantee of any sort securing the people of India against injustice and tyranny on the part of those constituting the Government. There is such a guarantee in the constitution of the United States of America, which declares:

The constitution framed for and given to the Filipinos by America contains similar provisions, which were quoted by us in a previous volume of this Review. In an English translation of the Constitution of the Republic of Turkey, published in the March issue of Political Science Quarterly, New York, we find the following articles:—

There are other similar provisions, but they would be too long to quote.

It is one of the merits of The Commonwealth of India Bill drafted by Mrs. Annie Besant and her co-workers that it contains the following Declaration of Rights:

Mr. W. P. Barton, retiring British Resident in Mysore, said at the state banquet given to him by the Maharaja:—

As the Mysore Civil Service has been so highly praised by a British officer of high