MORE DISORDERS

Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1932, Page 5

MORE DISORDERS

INDIAN RIOTING

large number of casualties

(United Press Association—j,y Electric Telegraph —Copyright.)

CALCUTTA, April 21. The All India National 1 Congress lias determined! to meet at Delhi, despite the Government of India’s ban. Therefore the Police Commissioner of Bombay ha.g served an order on -Ursi Sarjini Naidu, the President of the Congress to prevent her leaving Bombay without permission. At Delhi the police raided several houses in connection with preparations that are made there for the Congress

meeting. The Government is fully determined that no meeting of the Congress shall he held. A number were killed and thirty more 1 were injured when the police were forced to fire so ns to- quell serious Hindu-Moslem rioting in Bombay. The Moslems objected to Hindus V singing and playing music near the formers’ mosque during the Bakrjd festival. The Moslems and Hindus attacked

each other with knives and '8 tones. The police were caught between tho parties, They had to fire to disperse them.

Fourteen police officers and men were injured.

There have been similar disorders all over the native quarter of Bombay. The situation is now under control.

NORTH-WEST FR ONT.TER

OPENING OF ITS LEGISLATURE.

RUGBY, April 20. At the opening of the North-West Frontier Province Legislative Council at Peshawar, the Viceroy read the following message from the King: “Reh cently I had great pleasure in according my sanction to the elevation of the North-West Frontier Province to the position of a Governor’s, province, under the Government of India Act, and I rejoice to-day that you are celebrating the fulfilment of that decision. “On peace and good Government in the North-West Frontier Province oepmids in a great measure, the security of India; and I look with confidence to the people of the province to set in order their affairs so that momentous changes, which my Viceroy is to-day / inaugurating, on my behalf, will con- ■ duce to the benefit of their province ■ mid of India as a whole. “Through my Viceroy, I send to poll, the people of t lie North-West Fi'onuer Province, and to yuiir hew Government and Legislature, lily warmest greetH is my earnest prayer that V-dny’s happenings may promote your lasting contentment and prosperity,"

GANDHI’S PORTRAIT.

REJECTED BY ROYAL ACADEMY

LONDON, April 21

A portrait of Gandhi, painted by Oswald By-lev, the well-known artist, when the Mahatma was in London last year, ha& been rejected by the Royal Academy as being undesirable for tne Academy’s forthcoming summer exhibition.

The President of the Academy declare',?' that rejection is not for political motives, but because the Gandhi portrait is the least important ot three which Mr Birley has offered for this year’s show. The other two have been accepted. They are portraits of Lord Irwin and ’Sir Robert M itt.