IN INDIA

Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1930, Page 5

IN INDIA

VICEROY’S EDICT. NATIVE PROPERTY FORFEJT. (United Press Association—By Electric . Telegraph.—Copyright.) DELHI, October LI. What is intended to be the final blow to the civil disobedience campaign by the Viceroy of India is an ordei which enables the local Governments to occupy any immoveable property that is used' for the purpose of any association which is declared to be unlawful. The Viceroy, while admitting that public opinion is increasingly rebelling against the Nationalist Congress methods, urges the citizens more effectively to resist the Congress unlawful activities, and to bring about a restoration of order and tranquility. POLICE HEAD FIRED AT.

DELHI; October 11

Three unknown men, in a closed car, fired twenty shots-at a police sergeant named Taylor, his wife and two friends as they were entering the Lamington Road police station, in Bombay, early .this morning. Taylor was wounded in the hand. His wife received three bullets in the leg. A number of youths have been. arrested on the suspicion of complicity in the outrage. GOVERNMENT ACTION, UNDER NEW ORDINANCE. this dav at 8.30 a.m.) DELHI, October 12. The Bombay Government has taken swift action under the new Ordinance and declared eighty-six Congress and allied associations in the Presidency unlawful. It also announced that twen-ty-eight Congress offices in various districts would be taken possession of immediately.

Over two hundred police made n lightning raid on Congress headquarters at Surat and Ba Doli, and hauled down the Congress flag, which {iatl floated for months over the building, and hoisted the Union Jack in its place. Thirty arrests were made. The police also made a simultaneous raid on agitators headquarters at Ville Park, a suburb of Boosay, and this resulted in fifty-seven arrests, including three women. All were later sentenced to varying terms of imprisonment.

The United Provinces Government declared Congress organisations in the Benares district illegal.