OUTBREAK IN INDIA.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 10, 7 October 1907, Page 5

OUTBREAK IN INDIA.

x RIOTS IN CALCUTTA. SHOPS LOOTED, EUROPEANS ATTACKED, FORTY POLICE CASUALTIES. ' By Telegraph—Association—Copyright. Calcutta, October 4. A meeting in Calcutta, which demanded solf-governmcnt, was dispersed by tho police. Street rioting followed, and showers of stones wero thrown. Shops we're looted. . Tho disturbance lasted many hours. Tho mob was oventually dispersed by six divisions of police. Forty police wero injured. The mooting, it transpires, was organised by sympathisers with recently punished students. Subsequently students and hooligans gathered on tho roofs of Northern Calcutta and pelted trams and passers-by with brickbats. Europeans were singled out for attack. Bengali newspapers blamo the polico, alleging that the situation was created in order to throw discredit on Mr. Koir Hardio. Melbourne, October 5. In tho Senate, Senator Dobson denounced tho mischievous, unpatriotic, and traitorous speeches of Mr. Koir Hardio in India, and declared that ho deserved hanging. AN EXAGGERATION. By Telegraph—Association—Copyright. PLAIN HINT TO AN "ANGELIC FIREBRAND." AVOID A PAINFUL NECESSITY. (Rec. Oct. 6, 4.55 p.m.) London, October 5. Tho latest information from Calcutta is that tho Native press has 'greatly exaggerated tho riots. Tho "Tribune" comments that it Is possible that this may further impress on Mr. Keir Hardie tho lesson which ho has doubtless ' becun to learn — that it is oxceediiwly unwiso to givo the Press any dangerous material which it can exaggerate. ■ I Tho "Daily Telegraph" says that Mr. Hardie, who mediates a short stay :n India-before proceeding to play the angelic firebrand in Australia, by an oarly departure may reliovo tho'lndian Government of tho necessity of deporting him. i .