ARREST OF AGITATORS.
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TAMPERING WITH INDIAN TROOPS.
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PEKING, March 17. An attempt to create dissatisfaction amongst? the Indian troops stationed at Shanghai was discovered by the military police to-day, who arrested three Indian agitators in the military camp at Yangtsepoo. One, notorious locally for his antiBritish activities, is the head of the Sikh-Maliva faction and was recently sentenced for sedition in India. When arrested all were in posses-.-sion of handbills and literature, violently anti-British, urging • the troops to refuse to interfere with the Chinese who were striving for the same object as India„ for the overthrow of the Br^tish yoke. The authorities have known of their activities for some time, but were unable to arrest the leaider until to-day. There was a violent scene in Court when the leader declared that India would soon follow China's lead and emancipate the people by a world revolution. "J
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North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17748, 19 March 1927, Page 5
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156ARREST OF AGITATORS. North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17748, 19 March 1927, Page 5
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