Thrown Into Flames

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 968, 10 May 1930, Page 9

Thrown Into Flames

INDIA GUARDS OVERPOWERED Police Fire on Angry Mob EVACUATION ORDER FOR EUROPEANS GUARDS were overpowered by a big mob of rioters in India and thrown into the flames of a district magistrate’s court which had been deliberately set afire. Police opened fire and killed 50, wounding over 400, and women and children were hurried to safety.

United. P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright Reed. 10.5 a.m. DELHI, Friday. The story of how seven policemen were burned to death by a maddened mob in riots, is told by women who arrived- at Poona from Sholapur. A crowd numbering several thousand attacked and set fire to a district magistrate’s court and overpowered the guards, whom they flung into the flames. The mob then endeavoured to set fire to the post office and attacked the quarters of the European and AngloIndian railway employees. They were repulsed by the police, aided by troops, who opened Are, killing 50 and wounding over 400. The railway quarters were evacuated and the women and children were concentrated in the railway station under a strong armed guard until taken away by train. European residents and missionaries have been ordered to evacuate Talegaon, near Bombay, owing to a threatened outbreak. Gandhi’s second son, Manila], has assumed the leadership of his father’s volunteers, and intend to raid the salt depot at Dharavna. The Government has surrounded the depot with barbed wire entanglements. Gandhi was secretly removed at the dead of night from Yeravda gaol, Poona, to Purandhar Hills, Purandhar being the military sanatorium 25 miles from Poona. QUIETER NOW A British Official Wireless message from Rugby says Captain Wedgwood Benn, Secretary for India in the House of Commons, today said he had received a telegram to the effect that in the north-west frontier of India there has been no change of importance since May 5.

In the city of Peshawar the situa-

tion was tranquil. Civil power was still supported in the city by the presence of troops. The general situation in India was well under control, despite riots in various places following the arrest of Ghandi. for which the Government was well prepared. The spirit of the troops and the police was excellent. ANTI-BRITISH FEELING Reed. 11.30 a.m. TOKYO, Friday. In connection with Ghandi’s arrest, the Indians at Yokohama and Kobe convened a meeting, and resolved not to utilise British goods. They made a bonfire of everything in their possession of British origin. OVER 1,000 DEAD TRAIL OF BURMA ’QUAKE ISLAND PHENOMENA Reed. J 0.15 a.m. DELHI, Friday. Deaths in hospital and the discovery of many more bodies under the debris have brought the Pegu earthquake death roil to over 1,000. One third of the buildings are destroyed. The report that the island of Trongwa had disappeared with 12,000 inhabitants is now known to be untrue, but the island is a strange sight, with the ground broken by craters of mud and sand, from which water spouts. The river bed, which before the earthquake was almost dry, is now flooded. Two-thirds of the population are homeless. The fire has now died out, and steps are being taken to lay out a temporary village on the recreation ground.