INDIAN SITUATION

Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1932, Page 6

INDIAN SITUATION

BOMBAY RIOTS.

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CALCUTTA, Jan. 27,

There was serious rioting in connection with the Independence celebrations at Bombay, when mobs looted and burned two police stations, and adjoining buildings. The rioters smashed street lamps, broke the fire alarms, overwhelmed the police, and set fire to the Stations. The inhabitants are panic stricken.

« REVOLT "SPREADING

CALCUTTA, Jan. 27

Several villages in the Rajouri and Kotl-i districts, Kashmir, were sacked by armed mobs, and the revolt- is spreading. A massacre of the Hindus was averted nt Rajouri by troops, but several are reported killed by rioters. Many police were injured.

EX-VICEROY’S DEFENCE

RUGBY, Jan, 27

Speaking at Leeds, on the situation in India, Lord Irwin, ex-Viceroy, said that be could not doubt the responsibility for the recent rupture lay with the Congress Party. The construction of the constitution building, for Congress to follow was wide open, and for that reason, he said their action had been unnece.sary and unjustifiable. Ho though both the Government here and the Government of India, had no choice but to take the action they had taken in the last few weeks. It had been suggested that they had gone back on the policy pursued, when lie was Viceroy. That was a complete misrepresentation of the facts. The Government disliked the application of the present policy as much as anyone else, but there was nothing vindictive about their action. He did not suppose that if he bad been in India to-day, he would have acted any differently from the present Viceroy.