INDIAN UNREST

Taranaki Daily News, 29 September 1921, Page 5

INDIAN UNREST

DORSETS AMBUSHED. MORE TROOPS WANTED. Bj Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Delhi, Sept. 27. A column of Dorsets was ambushed on Saturday. Two were killed and one wounded. The rebels lost one killed and fifteen captured, also a quantity of firearms and swords. The column, on pushing into Nilambur. was re-attacked. One was killed and seven wounded. The rebels had twenty killed. A column of the Suffolks captured 24 Moplahs. There is rebel activity north of Walluvanada. The population is fleeing and abandoning all. At the Council of State, General Rawlinson stated that he had reduced the garrisons and abandoned the cantonments in the rebellious areas owing to the reduction of the British infantry in India. It was impossible, with the limited troops, to station detachments in every locality where there was a possibility of outbreaks. A secret meeting of Moslem Ulemas (religious leaders) reaffirmed the belief in the statements, for which the Ali Brothers and other non-co-operation leaders are being tried, and sanctioning the civil disobedience to laws. It also decided to reprint a prosecribed manifesto urging disloyalty amongst the troops, and to distribute it broadcast; also that it be publicly read from all Khalifat platforms. These decisions are tantamount to defiance of the Government.