IN INDIA

Hokitika Guardian, 26 March 1931, Page 5

IN INDIA

GANDHI CRITICISED. BY OPPONENTS OF EXECUTIONS. (United P r ees Association.— Pj Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] DELHI. March 25. The. symptoms of possible trouble in the National Congress open sCifsions at. Karachi was apparent at <■. meeting of the Young .Men's Association, which was called a.s an act of homage it<> the three Indians executed at Lahore. A furious attack on Dr Gandhi was made !>v the Moslem President of the Association, and by the Moslem and S-ikli extremists, who found a sympathetic bearing.

There have been disorderly scenes in Karachi City, where an English chaplain was stoned.

COMMUNAL RIOTING. MANY PERSONS KILLED. (Received 10.25 a.m.) DELHI. March 25. There was grave communal rioting in. C'nwupore yesterday and to-dav. following the Lahore executions. Twenty persons were killed and one hundred and twenty injured. The rioters set lire to and looteed shops in Cawnpore. British troops were called out at midnight, followed some hours Inter by auxiliary forces. Temples and mosques luut been looted and fourteen incendiary fires occupied the brigade’s attention, Attacks were made upon the Currency office, Courts and telegraph station. Trouble started when Moslems refused to participate in mourning for the executed men. Gangs of ruffians of both communities taking advantage of the situation, created a reign of terror indulging in burnings, and lootings. Disturbances also occurred in Peshawar where the demonstrators wrecked a liqour shop.