INDIAN REVOLT.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 May 1920, Page 5

INDIAN REVOLT.

THE AMRITZAR RIOTS. REPORT OP THE INQUIRY, ft Mwtife.—Freu Ann—Copyright. Received May 28, 7-30 pan, _. . „ Simla, May 26. xne report or the committee which inqoiNd into the Punjab rebellion has dmb published. Publication was withheld tffl am owing to the tension exover the Turkish peace terms. The document contains majority and Hiinority reports. The former states thst G«fcrai Dyer committed a grave error in ordering the troops to" fire on tk« crowd at Amritsar. This is praetkally the only serious censure in the majority report, which is signed by the Ewww member* of the committee. The minority report, signed by three Indian members, condemns martial law »* _a system of terror inflicted on the pMplt. The majority report justifies martial, law.

Though there was no evidence of an conipirwy to overthrow the BHtisk Government the majority of til* members of the committee consider Dyer honestly believed he was in difficult circumstances— Cable Assn.

GENERAL DYER'S ACTION. IflfcttAßY SUPPORT HIM. Received May 28, 8.45 p.m. London, May 27. Galief&l Dyer declines to comment on

the Hunter report beyond saying that evttto trill him. _ T h * "i I'* 1 '** 1 ?. Vlew strongly supports General Dyer. Sir George Younghusband dcctgM Genera] Dyer took the only porno* step to stop a native rising, •no the whites of India, especially the women, thank him.

Sir o*Moore Creagh, a former com-ni*nd«r.in-chief in India, says: "Sedition in iDditf will he encouraged by this damnable report. General Dyer's action absohiUly eseential."—Aus.N.Z. GMfle Altn.

London, May 26. TJ» Secretary of State for India, in a dispatch to the Viceroy, Lord Chelmsford, traversing General Hunter's reMt on the Amritsar case, says that While admitting General Dyer's honesty of purpose, he finds that his conception o' Mf ww so fundamentally at variance With what the Government had a right to expert from its officers that . the Government approved of General DyalHa resignation.

tTfcs Daily MajJ recently published the first-, dotsiln of the Amritsar-Ponjab g&thered from Brigadier-General Uper, who arrived in England bv the hospital ship Assaya. General Dyer declared that he had thirty seconds to make .up his mind before giving the Wfef retailing in 500 deaths. He shot to pWSnre India for the Empire, and to protect Engltahtnen and Englishwoman, wile w*» looking to him for pfoteftion. If ha had not given the I order his wltOie force wonld have been •wept away like chaff. Then what would have happened? Every Englishman in India approved of ills action"K*r I am told to gp for doing my horrible dirty duty," added General