INDIAN CRISIS

Hokitika Guardian, 12 May 1930, Page 6

INDIAN CRISIS

POLICE KILLED BY MOB

[United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]

DELHI May 10,

Though late , reports do not bear out the finst high estimates of the casualties at Sholapur, it is certain that twelve were killed and twenty-four wounded. Five policemen are still missing. The mob there were engaged in pastimes specially recommended by Gandhi, such as picketing the liqour shops, and cutting down palm tree^s. They showed the greatest savagery when they murdered or burned alive 'three unarmed policemen. They burned the Judge’s Court and destroyed records dating hack to 1827. European and Anglo-Indian refugees who have arrived from Poona, state that, after the murders, the police, aided by a small detachment of auxiliary forces, fired on'the mob and regained contrql, and that all the Europeans were concentrated in the railway quarters. With the arrival of British troops the situation is agaip» in hand. No mention is yet made of any .arrests. .■

FEAR OF CATASTROPHE:

NEW YORK, May 10

A cablegram was sent to-day by 102. American clergymen to Mr-Ramsay MacDonald urging him to. avoid, by an amicable settlement with.-Gandhi and his people, "a . conflict which means; catastrophe, for Britain'and India.”'-

GANDHI’S SUCCESSOR

DELHI, May 9

Gandhi's second son, Manilal, has assumed the leadership of his father’s volunteers. He intends to raid the salt depots at Dharavan. The Government has surrounded the depot with barbed wire entanglements.

The story of how seven policemen were burned to death by a maddened mob in the riots, was told by the women whb arrived at Poona' fr6m Sholapur (Bombay).” ' " _ /. A crowd numbering several' thousand attacked andAfet'fife, tb'th4 T>istriet 1 A higistrateki 1 Court, and bver--1 powered- tfie ; guards whoift 'they .flung Into the flames. '’The l mob then eiU deavoured to. set' ' fire tq the postoffice and attacked' tiie quarters ' of the European and AngTo-Ihdiah Rail way employees, ',but were repulsed . by the police, aided by 'troops, who opened fire, killing'fifty, and 'wounding over four hundred. The railway quarters were evacuated and the. women and children . concentrated at the railway station under strong armed guards, until take’n away hv train. European residents and missionaries have been ordered to evacuate Talegao.ii,. pear ...Bombay,, owing to the threatening outbreak. , ■