IN INDIA

Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1930, Page 5

IN INDIA

PESHAWAR IN DANGER. [United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.J DELHI, October 25. The A f rid is/ have disregarded all efforts to secure peace and Peshawar is again in danger. The'Government will be forced to undertake strong offensive measures against the tribesmen to clear the border of the present menace. It is rumoured that British troops are being sniped at near Chakkai Pass. BOMBS THROUGH THE POST. DELHI, October 25. Extremists are now sending bombs through the post. Two exploded in the post offices at Rangoon and at Hyderabad, the former injuring an official. Another was found addressed to a Magistrate at Hyderabad. Each package contained a note threatening the addressee With death. ' TERRIFIC STORMS. TRecefved this flav at 8.30. a.m.) « DELHI. Oct. 28. ’A capricious clerk of the weather is playing havoc in India. Hai] and snow at Simla-, a furious gale at Sind, where orchards were ruined, serious floods in Madras Presidency and the continued absence of cold weather in Calcutta is a fruitful topic of discussion. Twenty-four inches of rain fell in three days, sixteen inchefi coming in Twsnft’i-four hours. Not for a hundred years has Coimbatore district been so affected <by - floods which, destdoved the crops,, breaches were made in the river banks, bridges were broken and communication is at a standstill. One bus with eight persons crashed into a stream and all perished. OFFICIAL REPORT. LONDON, October 27.

The Government of India’s appreciation of the situation up to the 24th of October states that the provincial reports for the first half of October show' that a previously-noted improvement in the situation was maintained. •

The position regarding the boycott of foreign cloth is still unstable. Most of the provinces report that it is being sold openly in many places, but ii is not clearr whether the sales are of existing, or of new stocks.

In the main distributing centres however, there has not yet been any widespread and open defiance of the National Congress, although there is reason to believe that, in some of them, secret sales are being carried on with piece goc'ds. The merchants o'f Bombay, have however, rescinded a resolution they passed earlier in the month to reopen sales.

u J)he picketing of educational institutions has been definitely dropped from the civil disobedience programme in vietf of the small .success attained, and of a large measure of resentment being caused in the central provinces. The economic conditions in the rural areas continue to be sources of anxiety, owing to a general fall in the value of practically every kind of agricultural produce. On the other hand, the economic situation in Bombay City has improved. There has been a. substantial reduction in the number of unemployed mill labourers there. 235 INJURED AT BOMBAY. S DELHI, October 29. There was another clash between Bombay’s Nationalist Congressmen and the police, which ended in 235 being injured, while 42 men and 35 women were arrested.

In of. police orders, a big crowd of Congress folk, headed by Mrs Avantikabai Gohale, President of the “War Council,” proceeded with a Congress flag to a salutation ceremony on the esplanade at the Maidep. The police charged the crowd with their bludgeons. Though many of the crowd ran, 235 were injured. For the violation of an tforidding him to speak at Jallianwalabagh, J. M. Sengupta, formerly Mayor of Calcutta, and at present President of the '“All Intiia” Congress has been arrested.