PUNJAB REBELLION
—♦ ——~ CONDEMNATION OF COMMITTEE'S REPORT "DRASTIC ACTION ESSENTIAL "
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London, May 27. General Sir O'Mooro.Creagh, commentiug on tlio report of the committee which inquired into the Punjab rebellion, said: "It will be found that it will further alienate India, which is seething with sedition and Bolshevism. Every rascal will consider himself justified in committing assassination. The committee was formed of estimable gentlemen, but they don't know India. If General Dyer committed a brcach of military law he should have been court-martialled." Sir O'Mooro Creagh said he was convinced that the shooting was essential. The committee s contention that General Dyer should have read the Riot Act was ridiculous. "In what language would ho have read it" he asked. "Was the Brigade Commander to summon professors and have the law translated? There are hundreds of religions in India all advocating vengeance, Forgiveness is next to non-oxisteut. No doubt the,raMs will bo told that the British are afraid to shoot them, l'ho people of England are not aware of the goings-on in India, but they soon will learn." The authorities who were informed ought to he left alone. Conciliation was out of the question; drastic action was essential.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 210, 31 May 1920, Page 5
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201PUNJAB REBELLION Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 210, 31 May 1920, Page 5
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