INDIA QUIETER
SCATTERED SHOOTING IN FEW DISORDERS TROOPS IN READINESS Reed. noon. RUGBY, Wednesday. Questioned in the House of Commons regarding the situation in India, Captain Wedgwood Benn, Secretary for India, read a large number of telegrams received from India.
The latest news from the Punjab related to Sunday and Monday, when
all was quiet except for a partial
hartal in conse quence of Gandhi’s arrest at Lahore. A Europeon sergeant and a picket who were sent to prevent interfer ence with a light railway were surThey fought their way out. An inspector and a sergeant had to fire 15 rounds each, but no casualties were reported. The situation was now in hand.
Another telegram reported the necessity tor a police superintendent firing seven rounds at a crowd, and it was believed the ringleader was hit. A railway police station was reported to have been entered by 500 volunteers.
Telegrams from Bengal this morn ing reported all quiet on the Hoogli and Howrah.
At Chittagong four raiders were stated to have been killed. Captain Wedgwood Benn said he thought that referred to the raid a few days ago.
Messages from the Chief Commissioner dealt with yesterday’s disorders at Delhi, in one of which demonstrators wrecked a cart in which a deputycommissioner and senior superintendent of police were sitting. The casualties were not yet known, although it was reported that some 30 or 40 had reached the police station or hospital. The latest i report from Bombay, dated yesterday, stated that generally speaking the situation was still quiet. Following the arrest of Gandhi, a large meeting held in Bombay was conducted peacefully. A hartal started ou Monday, and continued on T ues cl ayin a mill area.
Forty-four mills, or move than 50 per cent, of the whole, were in work. Troops continued to be held in readiness:
In Surat the situation was quiet and some shops were open.
A message this morning- from Burma stated that, according to reports received, no disturbances li?.d occurred n Burma on Monday or Tuesday.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 966, 8 May 1930, Page 9
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