BIG TRIAL ENDS
28 MEN SENTENCED
CREATING STRIFE IN INDIA (Omted Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received Jan. 17th. at 10.55 a.m.) CALCUTTA, January 16. After a trial lasting for three years, costing the government £120,000, twenty-eight men including three Britons were sentenced at Meerut for conspiracy to wage war against the King. Over three hundred witnesses were examined, and the trial disclosed that some of the accused, with the aid of large sums of money from Russia, had fomented strikes among the Indian railway, and jute mill workers, which was intended to be the preliminary to the establishment of a movement to overthrow the Government. One was sentenced to life transportation, and five to twelve years’. Tiie others’ sentences ranges from ten to three veal's’.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 January 1933, Page 5
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126BIG TRIAL ENDS Hokitika Guardian, 17 January 1933, Page 5
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