INDIAN RISING
WAS GENERAL DYER JUSTIFIED? > fKonter'a Telecrara.j * DELHI, May 29. English papers in India, commenting on the Hunter Commission's report on General Dyer's action in ordering the shooting at Amritsar, strongly defend General Dyer, and declare that ho saved the Punjab. _ The Indian papers assert that wKilo' tho majority report whitewashes General Dyer, it will only deepen tho feeling that he caused the happenings in the. Punjab. - • • DISASTER NARROWLY AVERTED. LONDON, May SO. There is much criticism ..for and ngains-t tho Hunter Commission's report regarding' the shooting at Amrit. Bar. Leading Anclo-Indians, generally support General Dyer. Lord Sydenham, in an article, declares that if the rebellion in Punjab had succeeded, it would hare b<sen a disaster of the first magnitude. General Dyer's action cannot jnstlv bo condemned by anyone who had followed closely recent events in India ':.-...
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10604, 1 June 1920, Page 5
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138INDIAN RISING New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10604, 1 June 1920, Page 5
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