BRITISH POLITICS.
IN THE COMMONS
THE INDIAN SITUATION
(British Official. Wireless).
(Received this dav at 11 a.m.) I . RUGBY, May 7. Questioned in tho House of Com
mons regarding th 0 situation in India, Captain Wedgewood Boon read i large number of telegrams received
from India. The latest news from the Punjab related to Sunday and Monday when, all was quiet, except for partial hartal in consequence o ! Gandhi’s arrest at Lahore. A Euro peon sergeant and picket was sent •to prevent interference with a light railway. They were surrounded In a la.rge crowd, hut fought their way out. An inspector |rnd a sergean'.t I had to fi.ro fifteen rounds each, fr-s----unities were not reported. The suuation was now in hand. Another telegram, reported the ne- . eessity for a police superintendent I firing seven rounds at a! crowd, and it was believed the ring leader was hit. The railway and police station was i Jpou'ted to ■ liaw been entered by five hundred volunteers. A telegram from Bengal this mornin g reported all quiet on the Hoogli and Howrah. At Chittagong four raiders were stated to have been killed. He thought that referred to a raid a few days ago. Messages from the Chief Commissioner dealt with yesterday’s disorders at Delhi, in one of which demonstrators wrecked a cart in. which the Denuty Commissioner and Senior Superintendent of Police were sitting The casualties iare not yet known,-, although it wa.s reported some thirty or forty readied the police station or hospital. Tho latest report from Bombay dated yesterday, stated that generally speaking, the situation was still quiet. Following the arrest of Gandhi a large meeting was held in Bombay and was conducted peacefully. Hartal started on Monday and continued on Tuesday in a mill area. Fortyfour mills, or more than fifty per cent of the whole were in work. Troops continued to he held in readiness. In Surat the situation was qu.iet and some shops were open. A message this morning from Burma stated that according to reports received no disturbances had occurred in Burma on Monday or Tuesday.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 May 1930, Page 5
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