THE ANGELIC FIREBRAND.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 7 October 1907, Page 3

THE ANGELIC FIREBRAND.

WSLLT OF Ktlit UAKiMi..-, iuLR. STREET lUO'i'i.M.; IX CAuliiA. Calcutta, Uttober 4. A meeting was held hero w:th t.,e object of getting a united deni.nj tor se'.:government, and obtaining seli-govern-ment, it by force, ilia meeting was dispersed by the police. Stri.'t rioting followed. Showers of stones men thrown. Stops were looted. The vliiturbance lasted tor many hours, ine mob wag eventually dispersed by bii divisions of the police. Forty aiemuers of the police were injure l. The meeting wnica was dispensed by the police was held at Biadon bousre. It was organised by sympathisers of the students who were recently punished. After the riot hid been quelled, students and hooligans gathered on the roof* of Xorthem Calcutta and pelted trams and pasgers with brickbats. Europeans were singled out for attack. The Bengali newspapers blame the police lor the affray, alleging that the situation was created in order to throw discredit fen Mr Keir Hardie.

KEIR HARDIE; DENOUNCED. QUALIFYING FOB HANGING. Melbourne, October 5. In the Federal Parliament, Senator Dobton denounced as mischievous, un patriotic and traitorous the speeches of Mr Keir Hardie in India. He declared tlut the utterer of such speeches deterred hanging. RESULT OF KEIR HARDIE'S INDISCREET UTTERANCES. OPPORTUNITY OF THE NATIVE PRESS. EARLY DEPARTURE WILL SAVE DEPORTATION.

Received Oct. 6, 4.55 p.m. London, October 5. The latest information from Calcutta itates that the native press great)v exaggerated the riots. The Tribune, commenting on the report, says it is possible this mav further impress on Keir Hardie the "lesson which he has doubtless begun to learn that it is exceedingly unwise to give the press any dangerous material which it can exaggerate. The Daily Telegraph says, regarding Keir Hardie, who meditates a short stay in India before proceeding to plav the angelic firebrand in Australia, that his early departure may relieve the Indian Government of the necessity of deporting him.