INDIAN UNREST

Hokitika Guardian, 11 January 1932, Page 5

INDIAN UNREST

FURTHER ARRESTS MADE. EFFORT TO CHECK BOYCOTT. (United Press Association.—By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright.) DELHI, Jan. 0. The arrest of Congress ir.cn in India is being continued on an increasing scale every day. The Congress Organisation is finding an acute difficulty in securing leaders to replace those who are being arrested. Deports from every centre indicate a sharp rally to the Government’s side, and there is an optimistic feeling among traders over the Government’s assurance that any tyrannical Congress interference with the dealers in British goods will not be tolerated. • TWELVE YEARS’ SENTENCE. COMMUNIST AGITATOR. DELHI. Jan. 10. M. N. Roy, a notorious Indian revolutionary and a Communist has been sentenced at Cawnjpore to twelve years’ transportation for waging war against the King. Roy, who has been wanted since 1924 for planning a rebellion and the establishment of the Socialist Proletariat in. India, was arrested at Rom’bay in July of last year. He Ais 1 formerly a member of the Moscow Internation and was responsible for the direction of the Central Communist /citation propaganda in India, but he was expelled from the Moscow International as a renegade. CONGRESS PRESIDENT GAOLED. DELHI, Jan. 10. Dr Ansari, is the third Congress President to be elected and then ar- j rested since the Government ban on the Congress organisation. He lias been sentenced to six months’ simple imprisonment.