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but that on all other occasions during the Conference we should utter the cry as if no Government order to the contrary had been issued. This being agreed to, the delegates landed in the evening.

I took up my quarters at the residence of Mr. Behari Lal Roy, Zemindar of Lakutia, who was related to me by marriage. Mr. Behari Lal Roy was never a public man. Immersed in the affairs of his own estate, he had little time or inclination to interest him- self in public movements. But the Partition of Bengal drew him forth, like so many others, from his seclusion and he became, and continued to be throughout, one of the warmest supporters of the anti-Partition and Swadeshi movements. A man like him would naturally like to stand well with the authorities. But the public feeling was so strong that he was carried away by its resistless current and joined the national party.

The Provincial Conference was to meet on Saturday, April 14. On the morning of the 14th a conference was held at the house of Mr. Behari Lal Roy, where I was staying. All the leading dele- gates were there, including representatives from the Anti-Circular Society, a society recently formed with Mr. Sachindra Prosad Bose as Secretary and Mr. Krishna Kumar Mittra as President, to take necessary action against the circular issued by the Bengal Govern- ment affecting students. They formed a devoted band of Swadeshi workers, composed mostly of young men, who rendered valuable service to the Swadeshi cause. It was decided at the Conference that the delegates should meet in the compound of Raja's haveli, and march in procession to the pandal where the Provincial Confer- ence was to be held, crying Bande-Mataram as they went along. It was apprehended that the police would interfere and even use force; but it was strictly enjoined that in no circumstances were the delegates to retaliate and that they were not to carry lathis or even walking-sticks with them. Mr. B. C. Chatterjee, barrister-at- law, asked me if he might not have a walking-stick with him. 'Not even a walking-stick', was my curt and emphatic reply. The instruc- tion was loyally carried out.

The procession was to start at about 2 p.m. I arrived at the place about half an hour before the time. We arranged the procession and made a start. The President, Mr. A. Rasool, and Mrs. Rasool, who was an English lady, led the procession in a carriage. We were in the first line, Babu Motilal Ghose, Editor of the Amrita Bazar Patrika, Babu Bhupendra Nath Basu and myself. The younger men were in the rear. The police were strongly in evidence. They