ROUND-UP OF REBELS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 955, 24 April 1930, Page 11

ROUND-UP OF REBELS

TROOPS KILL TWELVE IN INDIA ARRESTS FOLLOW RIOTS United P.A.—By Telegraph—-Copyright Reed. 9.10 a.m. DELHI, Wednesday. Twelve rebels were killed and many wounded in a running fight with the mliitary in tlie recent Chittagong outbreak. A search party of troops first enI countered 30 rebels four miles from | Chittagong and surrounded them, killing seven. The remainder retreated through the dense jungle, where they were again surrounded, but they managed to escape to the hills, pursued by troops armed with machine guns. Another fierce fight ensued in which five rebels were killed. There were no casualties among the troops, who are still pursuing the insurgents. Several arrests were made at Chittagong, where the citizens were asked not to walk through the main streets after nine o’clock at night. While four men who were arrested in a train at Feni, in Eastern Bengal, on suspicion of complicity in the Chittagong outrage, were being searched in the stationmaster’s office, they drew revolvers and shot and wounded the inspector of police, two constables, a ticket collector and a village policeman. They then escaped. Sixteen persons, including a number of students, were arrested at Feni.