LAHORE EXECUTIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 April 1931, Page 6

LAHORE EXECUTIONS

SIKH’S RESOLUTION. United Press Association— By EJectru Telegraph—Copyright) DELHI, April 11. A resolution' was passed by the Central Sikh ..League ol Amritsar, repro sculling the Sikhs ol the* Punjab, “appreciating the sacrifices” of Bhagat Singh Suklidcv and Rujguru, Lahore terrorists and Sajjaii Singh, murderer of Mrs .Curtis at Lahore. 4he resolution lias aroused considerable iceling among flu.* Europeans throughout India. Sublias Chandra- Hose, a Bengal youtli leader, is reported to have told the Sikhs that “India required to producel thousands ol Bliagat Singhs before she could attain her independence. Bose is bitterly attacked bv the “Calcutta Statesman,” which asks: “How long is the Government of India going to tolerate such verbal incitements io callous, cold murder of officials whose one crime is that they have been doing their duty, ami who are unable to defend themselves?” The “Statesman” describes 1 lio murder of Magistrate Peddie at Midnapore as “illustrating the gravest state that Indian public opinion can. reach.” and it adds: “If resolutions exalting the murder of British women and children are icy lie publicly passed with -acclamationj and nothing is to be done, there is an end to government, and we had better admit the fact..” RICH MERCHANT SHOT. CALCUTTA. April 11. Another outrage has occurred in Eastern Bengal, where three masked youths, armed with revolvers, held uv> a compartment train near Mymonsingli : robbed a rich merchant of over £'79o. alter which they shot him and two others, and decamped. Ihe niercluint'Mi.ed/ Captain 0. F. Heaney, of the Royal Mohammed, run amok with a revolver at Tanghyia, in Upper Burma. All escaped.