INDIAN UNREST.
RIOTING AND SHOOTING. IJV TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. AUSTRALIAN ANI) N.Z. CAUI.K ASSOCIATION. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) DELHI, Jan. 9 Agrarian riots are still spreading. A large mob attacked Pursatganj, ten miles east of Rni Bareli (forty-eight miles, south-east of Lucknow), iirorder to loot bazaars. The police were compelled to fire on the mob. It is reported that four men were killed and two wounded. Two companies of infantry are now in the district, and others are under orders to proceed there. So far six hundred rioters have been arrested. The day after the ringleaders were arrested ten thousand people assembled outside the gaol at Rai Bareli, with the object of attempting a rescue of the prisoners. Armed police were compelled to fire, killing six. Cultivators of land have formed Soviets for the furtherance of their demands. The looting of landlord’s houses and estates continues. Police reserves at Allahabad and Lucknow are being drawn upon and a cordon is being drawn round the disaffected districts preventing news of the riots spreading.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19210110.2.3.2
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 10 January 1921, Page 1
Word count
Tapeke kupu
175INDIAN UNREST. Hokitika Guardian, 10 January 1921, Page 1
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in