RISINGS IN INDIA.
WIDESPREAD OUTBREAKS. BRITISH RULE ENDANGERED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. London, Jan. 5. Bombay telegrams report that the widespread nature of the Indian risings i) 3 disclosed in tiie latest evidence before the Hunter Commission.
All classes at liasur, an aggregation of fortified hamlets thirty miles southward from Lahore, attacked the British, shouting "English rule is ended." They beat two English soldiers to death Forty leaders of the uprising were given eighteen strokes. Gallows were erected in a public place, but not used. Mobs at Qujranwala, forty miles northward of Lahore, burned the railway station and bridges. Aeroplanes bombed and machine-gunned the town and neighboring villages for two days, setting fire to various buildings. Similar outbreaks are described at 14 places, the natives always beginning with the destruction of the railway, upon which frontier armies are depending.
The military used an armored train, which machine-gunned various villages. The traffic manager of the NorthWestern Railway state* that the system lias been paralysed for twenty days. British rule is seriously endangered.— Times. ' »
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 January 1920, Page 5
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