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Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1930, Page 5

IN INDIA

tiitivsf SITUATION. r■' A" - ——- • . • \ .1. - • • , [United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright]. • ' DELHI, August C. iAt Summer, following on HinduMoslem riots, there is a grave situa-r tion. . Machine guns are guarding the main streets and public building®, while armed police and Europeans are patrolling the City. Two companies of Indian’lnfantry are proceeding to the City of Hyderabad. Rioting has again broken out. There are many cases of robbery with violence occurring is scheduled parts of the City. The victims in most cases have beeri refugees from the floods, who at present are living, in the streets and open spaces.

’ ' ' , NATIONAL LEADERS. / CONFER IN GAOL. '1 DELHI, August 5. The Viceroy of India has given permission .to Pandit Motilal Nehru . arid Pniidit 1 dehwarlal Nehrri to meet Dr Dgpdln in the Yeravada Uaol in order ' tof ’'discuss ft settlement"* of the political 'situation. .•It-is emphasised that a calling off of the disobedience and the no-tnx campaign is .the specific condition precedent to ;the consideration by the Government of any suggestion which the three Nationalist Congress leaders' may makefhftpr their discussion in gaol. It is understood that the "Viceroy is determined riot to allow; any more vacoilation on the part of the National Congress to accept the Government’s terms; '/ HINDUS V. MOSLEMS. ; BLOODSHED IN PUNJAB. DELHI, August 6. Acute tension between the Hindus and the Moslems in Miwwar, a city in the Punjab, ' had a dramatic sequel yesterday,'7 when a Handu ran amok with A gun. 'He killed eleven 'Moslems and wounded four. He- rushed into a butcher’s shop and shot' every Moslem, of whom nine are dead. Tlien he left'the' city, .killing two more. He is' acill at ' ; 1