INDIAN AGITATION

Hokitika Guardian, 28 August 1930, Page 5

INDIAN AGITATION

0 : { ANOTHER BOMB THROWN'. W . 5 j A A;; (United Press Association~By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] ' DELHI, August 27. ' Following the attempt to assassinate Police Commissioner Tegart at Calcutta, another outrage occurred in Calcutta last night, when another bomb, was thrown, this time at the Jorabagan Police Station in the centre of the city. The bomb, which exploded in ■ the station yard, injuring three persons* including a beggar woman, is believed to have been hurled from a passing car. Thirteen arrests have been made in Calcutta and two at Lahore in con. , nection with the attempt on Tegart’s *" life, including Dr Narayan Chandra Roy* a member of the Calcutta Co-, v poration. FRESH FRONTIER, FIGHTING. DELHI, August 20. Th# situation on the north-west , frontiery whibh appeared, to be improve , ingj Ha’s ‘'become worse during the, week-end. 1 There was a serious clash yesterday Doipei, in the Bannu . district, Government . forces and d large, armed force of Hathfkkel ; WMifsl'' . A mixed force of the regular, > infantry, tfropiier eonstabulnrly and police left Baniiu ejjrly in the morning > to,"prev,enf a ipeetjng of, hostile tribes-, t, men, Captain F, Ashcroft, of the Frontier Force Rifles, was shot dead from behind,, and fierce hand-to-hand-fighting resulted in nine Indian *o!-- i i diers being killed and ten wounded, n while, twenty-six tribesmen were kill-' ed, ; five wounded, and seventy taken *« prisoners. .

DRASTIC MEASURES. CALLED-FOR. FROM GQVERN"f;'!," . MENT. - , this day. at noon.) , , .DELHI, Aug. 27. The. Congress; revolutionary movement be stemmed by. concessions or conference. This opinion was expressed by the European Association Conference at Calcutta to-day, when resolutions, calling ;on the -Government to take drastic measures to combat the campaign and condemning further delay in the hope of creating a favourable atmosphere for the Conference, wore passed. AlLpiembers of the working committee of. the Indian National Congress, excepting two women, were arrested at New Delhi this afternoon in a lightning raid on a he use, where a committee was meeting.

: DEATH FROM BOMB. ~DELHI, Aug. 27. T*The> Government servant wounded in the Calcutta bomb outrage this morn-ing-died ii?pm terrible' injuries. The police.secured evidence that the crimes were committed by a gang of Bengali terrorists; who are in possession of a large, number: of bombs, . . .