INDIAN UNREST

Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1921, Page 3

INDIAN UNREST

ICBTIIAUAN AM. MZ. CADI.K ASSOCIATION. < INDIAN RIOTS. (Received This Day at 12.25 [).m ; ) DEI-.HI, December 2/. A serious riot occurred in the Mohammedan quarter of Calcutta between Mohammedans and Anglo Indians following an altercation with a hawker, l’assers- bv took sides and lire arms were used.' till armed police intervened and dispersed the crowd, 25 being wounded, one mortally. A general attack by Mohammedans ur the AngloIndia.rquarter was frustrated and forte four were arrested. 'On Boxing morning, a constable was found battered to death, after eseur - j„.r a prisoner to the lock-up. VUnle the police were searching for the murderers some houses and a mosque were s,.t afire. Wild reports were -circulated that the police were looting and firin.. buildings indiscriminately. Ihe shops hurriedly closed. Twenty lour arrests were made and the situation has "following on a long campaign of an-ti-Britisli vituperation and seditious incitement, the authorities took action acrainst the newspaper “Independent. All the editorial staff were arrested and 1 sentenced to various terms of impri- ' sonment. Despite this, the newspaper appeared in manuscript form, from the house of the imprisoned leader thousands of copied being distributed. Alter the first issue the editor was arrested and sentenced to a year of rigorous imprisonment. ; Further arrests of extremists are reported in various ports of India. At. the Extremist Conference at ft ' Alimedabad. Gandhi declared 'he i"; ' tended to pursue his activities unshat-

ed. and if unsuccessful would abandon the non-violence programme. It was now a fighting to a finish with the Government,