INDIAN AFFAIRS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 December 1931, Page 6

INDIAN AFFAIRS.

GOVERNMENT ACTION. TO DEAL WITH TERRORIST MENACE. VERY STRINGENT ORDINANCE. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) CALCUTTA, November 30. The Government’s measures to quell the terrorist movement in Bengal are announced by Governor Jackson, who declared it was obvious that the prev§e'nt laws were insufficient to deal with the menace and an ordinance was being issued by the Viceroy to-night, giving the Bengal Government wider powers which it is hoped would kill the movement. Special tribunals to deal with the terrorists crime would mete swift justice and those arrested for at* tempted political murders w r ould pay the death penalty. Prisoners detained without trial as suspected revolutionaries would be removed to other provinces. Military action woufd.be taken in areas which were hotbeds of movements, the initial move being to,, transfer the force at Chittagong tq round up suspects. • ; .., ATTACK BY NATIVE SOLDIERS. ON INDIAN GAOL. CALCUTTA, November 30. Fifty Indian soldiers belonging to the State forces terrorised the inhabitants of Khaipur and subsequently attacked the city gaol, where two of their comrades were imprisoned for disobedience of a civil police order. Armed with guns, hatchets and spears, the solders smashed the doors of the gaol and attacked the police guard killing one and wounding five. .The remainder saved themselves by jumping from the roof and windows.