REVOLT IN CAWNPORE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 281, 6 May 1915, Page 8

REVOLT IN CAWNPORE.

200 ENGLISH MASSACRED. San Francisco, April 13. Hitherto unpublished details have just, reached San Francisco relative to the massacre of 200 Englishmen in Cawnpore, India, by revolting Hindu tribes, rivalling in deadliness the recent uprising in Singapore. The news was .carried to California by TSlmi Jawala Singh, a Hindu merchant of Panama, who arrived from Burmah.

"A force of !100 rebels' fought a closerange battle with 300 -English and 00 Hindu soldiers outside the gates of Cawnpore early last December," said Juwala Singh on landing at San Francisco, ''and news of the fatalities was suppressed, for India is held under rigid martial law" Stealing away from their headquarters at Calcutta in the night, the Hindus seized a Royal Mail train waiting in the Calcutta yards, according to the Panama merchant. Their objective point, Cawnpore, is the centre of the united povince between Bengal and Punjab, where the revolutionists are strongest.

Railway officials telegraphed ahead to stop the train, not knowing the errand of the party aboard. At Cawnpore a force of 350 Government troops awaited the rebel party, and ordered them to disarm. The reply of the Hindus was a deadly volley of rifle bullets. Tffe Hindus opened, fire without warning, and by reasun of the surprise, killed or wounded more than half of the British soldiers.

The rebel party routed the defenders, and hold possession of Cawnpore for three days, dispersing only in the face of heavy reinforcements, ' according to current accounts obtained by .lawala. Two hundred of the Government soldiers, all Englishmen - , were killed in theeiigagemont, while the attacking partyescaped with a few wounded, the rebels claimed. Jawala Singh, in Burmah nt the time of the massacre, learned the details of the uprising on a buying trip into the interior of India. ''The seriousness of the Hindu revolt is not realised in America, because of the merest details only reaching the United States. Jawala Singh came to San Francisco from India by wav of Burmah, China, and Japan. He is in California shipping Oriental goods to Panama."