RISINGS IN INDIA.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16725, 7 January 1920, Page 7

RISINGS IN INDIA.

SENSATIONAL DETAILS. (By Cable—Press . Association—Copyright.) ("Tho Times.") LONDON, January 5Bombay telegrams report that the widespread nature of the Indian risings is disclosed in the latest evidence before the Hunter Commission. All classes at Ivasur, an aggregation of fortified hamlets 30 miles southward from Lahore, 'attacked the British, 'shouting, "English rulo is ended 1" They beat two English soldiers to death. Forty leaders of the uprising were given eighteen strokes, and a gallows was crected in a public placo, but was not used. Mobs at Gujlanwala, 40 mileß northward of Lahore, burned a railway station. British aeroplanes bombed and machine-gunned tho town and neighbouring villages for two days, setting fire to various* buildings. Similar outbreaks nre described at fourteen places, the natives always beginning with the destruction of the railway, upon which the frontier armies aro depending. The military used an armoured train, which machine-gunned various villages. The traffi? manager of the Northwestern Railway stated that the system had been paralysed for twenty days, and British rulo was seriously endangered.