UNREST IN INDIA

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 179, 24 April 1919, Page 5

UNREST IN INDIA

DEMOBILISATION SUSPENDED

SERIOUS OUTBREAKS

By Aesociation-Oopyrielit. London, April 17. Soldiers awaiting, embarkation to''England, including- some, from- -Mesopo- ' tamia, will remain in India in view oftho present situation. Advices from Calcutta announce passive resistance demonstrations by Marwaris, which culminated in serious rioting in the Indian quarter. Several Europeans wore assaulted- and -officers were injured. The military forces were called out and lireel on the mob causing, a dozen casualties. Order lias been restored. . A mob at Uujran, .in the Punjab, at- , tacked a train and wrecked the station. Aeroplanes dropped bombs on the crowds. ■ Unrest continues at DeKi. ■ At Lalioro the rioters, after killing five Europeans and looting the banks, burnt the buildings. The Mission Church depot in the Punjab was also destroyed. Strong military forces quelled' the riots.—Keuter. : ".'.-; VICEROY'S REPORT FRESH TKOOPS DISTRIBUTED. . (Kec. April 23, 1030 p.m.) ■ London, April 19. . lhe Viceroy reports stating that in the Punjab additional troops•• arriving at Lahore are baiiig distributed throughout tho province. Attempted outrages were suppressed, the communal responsibility of villages for the protection of the railways being enforced. There were fifteen casualties in Friday's firing in Delhi, and one killed. In the Northwest frontier demonstrations had proved a fiasco at Peshawar, ,as the shopkeepers refused to close their shops. No further' disturbances occurred iu Bombay. . DRINK-SELLING PEStS; CAUSE OF DISORDERS IN ' ■;■ COLOMBO. (Rec. April 23, 8 p.m.) Colombo, April 19. A native was fined five hundred rupees : Jor selling a bottle of arrack to an Australian soldier. . .'.'"-. ■ The Magistrate considered.' that these drink-selling pests were responsible for the disorders which occurred when Australian troops were there.—Aua.-N.Z. Cable Assn. situat]on¥egypt , PUBLIC SERVICES PARALYSED. .-• Cairo, April 15 (delayed). The Public Services continue to be paralysed owing to the strike, winch-is., spreading, and an, epidemio is feared, '* There are indications that tie patience of the authorities ia exhausted and that sterner measures will be taken. The flogging of some of the chief leaders in the riots has been ordered.—Remteri LEADERS DEALT WITH. ' : . Cairo, April 18. Some of the leaders in the 1 riots have been court-martialled and sentenced to terms of from three to fifteen years' imprisonment—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Ann. VITRIOL OUTRAGES. '(Reo. April 23, 8 p.m.) ; Cairo, April 19/ Owing ■to vitriol outrages during the riots, a military proclamation fixes the death penalty for anyone throwing vitriol or other corrosive acids, and fifteen years' imprisonment ,for anyone found in possession of such, aoids—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Asan. ■ . : ■ ,

INTIMIDATION OF CIVIL SEEVANTB. (Eμ. April 23, 10 p.m.) ■ 7 Cairo, April 19. An unsatisfactory feature of the preeeht situation in Egypt is the intimidation of the Government servants, who aro being frightened from their work. An order issued under martial law announces tho death penalty for throwing corrosive acid. Several fatal cases of vitriol throwing are repotted.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.