INDIAN DISORDER
POLICE ORDERED TO FIRE. TO DISPERSE RIOTING CROWD. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) CALCUTTA, February 4. The Bombay Government hate decided to adopt drastic measures to deal with the organised violence, which is now a serious menace to the peace of the City. Hitherto the police of Bombay have acted with the utmost restraint. and have refrained from firing on any aggressive mobs, hut- instructions have now been issued to the police to lire on the crowds on their refusing to disperse. Replying to questions in the Indian Assembly at New Delhi, Sir Evelyn Howell (Foreign Secretary) stated that since December, six thousand persons, including National Congressmen, have been arrested in various districts of the North-West Frontier Province. He stated that the total number of people now in the Frontier gaols is ten thousand.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 February 1932, Page 5
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137INDIAN DISORDER Hokitika Guardian, 5 February 1932, Page 5
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