THE BUCKSHOT CURE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 957, 28 April 1930, Page 9

THE BUCKSHOT CURE

POLICE LOSE PATIENCE WITH INDIA MOB ACTION TAKEN AGAINST PRESS United i’-t —By Tetegraph Copyright Reed. 9.25 a.m. DELHI, Sunday. Armed police at Neela, a salt manufacturing centre near Diamond Harbour. fired on a mob of 3,000 villagers. Encouraged by Congress volunteers, the villagers had severely stoned the police, most of whom were badly bruised or cut with knives. Patience proving of no avail, buckshot was ultimately fired, and two of the rioters and two policemen were taken to hospital. Twelve more rioters are reported to have been killed by rifle and machine-gun fire at Peshawar. Twelve others were wounded. The DeputyCommissioner, Mr. Metcalf, and the Assistant Superintendent. Mr. Carroll, were seriously injured in a street battle. Order Is now restored, and the British troops have been replaced by an Indian detachment. The Viceroy, Lord Irwin, announces an ordinance to revive in a more effective form the Indian Press Act of 1910. which was repealed in 1922. The Government of India, influenced by representations, has at last realised that intense harm is being done by the violent, seditious, and revolutionary language used daily by the greater section of the Indian Press. A communique states: “Nothing at the present moment is operating so powerfully to promote a revolutionary and lawless spirit as the writings in the Indian Press.”