PESHAWAR RIOTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1019, 9 July 1930, Page 9

PESHAWAR RIOTS

POLICE USED RESTRAINT COMMITTEE REPORTS DELHI. Tuesday. The action of the civil and military authorities in firing to suppress the riots at Pashawar on April 23 is entirely upheld by a committee of inquiry, which pays a tribute to the courage, resource, and forbearance of the men under great provocation. The committee expresses the opinion that armoured cars are not suitable for the conditions prevailing in Peshawar, and suggests thorough consideration of the question of employing cars in quelling civil disorders. The Government of India endorses the report, and promises to consider the recommendation. A message from Calcutta says 1.000 students were unable to sit for a law examination at Calcutta University yesterday owing to picketing by Congress volunteers, who included 50 women of high-caste Indian families. Every entrance to the hall was blocked, and candidates who refused to leave were bodily removed. A British Official Wireless message from Rugby says the Secretary of State for India. Captain Wedgwood Benu, stated in the House of Commons that up to the present about 33,000 copies of the first part of the Simon Commission's report, and about 26.000 copies of the second part, had been sold in Britain.