INDIAN AFFAIRS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1930, Page 5

INDIAN AFFAIRS

AN UGLY INCIDENT. L United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] (Received this dav at II a.m.) DELHI, Jan. 28. A huge fair at Allahahgd had the first real trouble yesterday, one hundred people being injured when 5000 semi-nude Saddhus, armed with cudgels stormed the police station, and headquarters of volunteer scouts. These Saddhus are known to belong to a quarrelsome sect, which resented an order for expulsion from a certain compound A critical situation was only averted by the police sub-inspector firing three .revolver shots, whereupon the Saddhus raced off to their own huts. .

INDIAN COOLIES. DELHI, Jan. 28. A memorial submitted by the foreman of two thousand five hundred coolies to the Viceroy, alleges the completion of the Viceroy’s house and gardens in new Delhi was disfigured by the shabbiest scandal. The contractor was repeatedly in arrears with his wages, until the coolies were in the greatest want of money and died. When their liabilities were heavy, it was alleged the contractor offered half for a final settlement, paying the same by a series of dishonoured cheques. The memorial concludes: “It must be the poorest comfort to Your Excellency to reside in a house knowing that a large number of men, women and children who laboured to make it are carry ling dn without food and shelter, robbed of their hard earned income by a contractor devoid of anj sense of honesty.”