INDIAN RIOTS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 May 1930, Page 5

INDIAN RIOTS

INDIAN .SABOTAGE

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

(Received tliis day at 8 a.m.) DEI,HI, May 23

Trunk Government telegraph wires between Madras and Calcutta were cut yesterday near Nell ore. A nearby notice, written in Telugu, stated that unless the press ordinance were repealed within a fortnight, railway lines would be damaged and bombs thrown. Patrol troops at Sholapur were again stoned with the result that martial law is continued.

AIRMEN KILLED

WHILE ON FRONTIER. DUTT

(Received this dav at 9. a.m.l

DELHI, May 23

The heroism of an Air Force observer is reported from Risalpur, where a plane crashed when returning from bombing hostile frontier tribesmen. Flying Officer Stroud and Leading Aircraftsman Wiltshire left Risalpur in the evening, and dropped bombs on the tribesmen’s stronghold, and swooped down to 600 ft to fire a machine gup burst on the tribesmen. Stroud was hit in the neck by a rifle bullet from a Mohmnnd sniper and slowly died, but before he collapsed, he signalled Wiltshire to take over control. Wiltshire who had no knowledge of piloting, took the machine 45 miles homo, but when

alighting at the emergency landing ground at Risalpur, the machine crashed, and he was thrown out and injured and died in the evening.