INDIAN BOYCOTT

Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1930, Page 5

INDIAN BOYCOTT

' POLICE FIRE ON CROWD

[United Press Association—By Electric \% Telegraph.—Copyright. J-

DELHI, September 27,

Fifteen persons, including jin Indian magistrate and several Forestry on.cialsj were killed and over fifty, were injured in .a clash between a mob of five thousand rioters and police in the Forest of Chirmar, near Panvel, in the Kola ba Province of the Bombay Presiidency. ‘ ' "■ 1

The Nationalist Congress “War •Council” of Panvel prevailed on a large number of the Foresters to disobey the Forest laws, and then the police arrested five of them. A large crowd of sympathisers attacked the police and killed three Forest officials and, attempted the rescue of the prisoners. ’ v

The police twice opened fire, hut they failed to quell the disorder.

Thereupon arnied reinforcements were rushed to the scene from Bombay: ;rv ; BOYCOTT EFFECT. , ; •. DELHI, September 28. . ; As a reault of .several months’ picketing ahd vboycott, the foreign cloth goods trade, in Delhi has been ruined by; Congress. . Unless there is a return to normal within fhfee months; the capital city will permanently lose its position as the distributing centre for Northern India. Three-fourths of the:-shops are new closed.