UNREST IN INDIA
EVIDENCE BEFORE HUNTER COMMISSION
BRITISH RULE SERIOUSLY
ENDANGERED
By TelesranU-Presß Aesoclatlon-Copyriehl Bombay,, January i. The widespread nature of the Indian; risings is disclosed in tho latest evidence, before the Hunter Commission. All' classes at ICnsur attacked the British, ■ shouting "English rule is -ended."- The mob beat two English soldiers to death. Forty of tho leaders were Riven eighteen strokes. Gallows were erected in a publio place, but wero not used. The mobs at' Gnjnrnevala burned tho railway station, bridges, and aeroplanes, and bombed and fired machine-guns on the, town and the l neighbouring villages for two days, audi set fire to buildings. Similar outbreaks wore described aa having happened iri fourteen places. Tho! natives always 'began with the destruc- : tion of the railway, on which the frontier armies depended. The military used an armoured train which Sr*l machine- < guns on various villages. The tr,ame manager of the NorthWestern Railway stated that the system was paralysed for twenty days. British; rule was seriously endangered.—"The Times.".
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 87, 7 January 1920, Page 7
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167UNREST IN INDIA Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 87, 7 January 1920, Page 7
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