HUMAN CARGO.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18216, 29 October 1924, Page 9

HUMAN CARGO.

CHINESE IN CASES.

THREE COOLIES UNSHIPPED AT NEW YORK. <»T CARL*—FSB'S ASSOCIATION—COPTUOHT) iSTP»*r "srif" SEjtTic*.i NKW YORK. October 27. The polife «hadowed two well-dressed Chinese escorting three packing-cases of tin unusual size. When the i-ase« wore seized and opened. they disgorged three terribly emaciated eonljes. The coses had just arrived by >teomer from Singapore. One of rlie < roiie*. shortly after release. died from starvation. The other two confessed that they had been iv the boxes for a month. The t\v> Chinese escorting the boxes were arrested. IN WAR ARRAY. TROOPS IN CALCUTTA. BRITISH FORCES READY. (BY CABLK-®BSS9 ASSOCIATION —CoPT*lO*T'i 'AUSTRALIAN AND X.T.. CABLE ISSfcJCIATIOK.) DELHI, October 27. Though outwardly the Government. of Bengal's action, in arresting a large i-.uniber of persons '-t'spcctod of complicity in revolutionary crime, has been received calmly there is a strong under-current of resentment discernible. A huge public meeting at Calcutta passed a resolution expressing the strongest protest, ami dedicating next Saturday as a day of mourning throughout the province. The European community is profoundly surprised at the extent of t.h? revolutionary propaganda discloH'd in tilo Government ! s declaration of tiie rtHF.ons foi promulgating the ordinance. British in full war equipment n!.m\<cd though the Indian quarter cl T the c'ty thin morning, and armoured ears patrol'ed the streets.