THE RIOTS IN INDIA

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 174, 17 April 1919, Page 7

THE RIOTS IN INDIA

PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNORGENERAL

STERN MEASURES WILL BE TAKEN

By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright (Eec. April 17, 0.15 a.m.) Simla, April 11. The Governor-General has published a special Gazette regarding the present agitation against the Bowlatt Act, which purely aims at anarchical aud revolutionary Crimea. The Government deplores the agitations in Delhi, Calcutta, Bombay, and Lahore, and the graver murderous attacks on defenceless iudintluals in Ainritsar and Ahiueclabad aiicl wanton destruction of private and public property. The Governor-General expresses his gratitude for the loyalty of unofficial Indians who protected tJiosts. threatened by the mob at Anintsar, where the loss of life might nave been greater. The Government intends to prevent the recurrence of excesses by all means in its power, and will not hesitate to employ ample military resources to suppress outrages—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.. Keuter. • INFLAMMATORY AGITATORS. (Ttec. April 17, 1.10 a.m.) London, April 14. The Press Bureau reports that although the observance, of a Day of Humiliation in India on April 6 led to no serious disturbances, Gaudlu and ilrs. Naidu addressed a meeting of Jlohammedans at Bombay, at which inflammatory language was employed regarding the events in Egypt. The crowd then developed rowdiness. A meeting at the French Bridge, of unprecedented magnitude, was exhorted by Gandhi to refrain from violence. The Viceroy on , April 14 reported that Gandhi was forbidden to go to Delhi and the Punjab, where the position was serious, he having threatened, to break certain laws. Gandhi disobeyed and was sent back to Bombay.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable ! Assn.-Beuter.