THE UNREST IN INDIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8550, 7 October 1907, Page 5

THE UNREST IN INDIA.

STREET RIOTING. FORTY POLICE INJURED. CALCUTTA, October 4. A which demanded selfgovernme£/by force in Calcutta was dispersed by the police. Street rioting followed. Showers of stones were thrown and shops looted. The disturbance lasted many hours. The mob was eventually dispersed by six divisions of police. Forty police were injured. LATER PARTICULARS. CALCUTTA, October 4. . The meeting demanding selfgovernment, and which was dispersed by the police, was helfl -in Bladon Snuare. It was organised by sympathisers with recently punished students. Subsequently stu-; dents and hooligans gathered on the roofs of Northern Calcutta and pelted trams and passers-by with brickbats. ' Europeans were singled out for at-; tack - ~ 4-u : Bengal newspapers blame the; police, alleging that the situation; was created in order to throw discredit on Mr Keir Hardie. RIOTS GREATLY EXAGGERATED BY THE NATIVE PRESS. "THE ANGELIC FIRE-BRAND." Received October 6, 4.55 p.m. LONDON, October 5. < The latest information available is to the effect tiaat the Calcutta .native ' press Js&atly exaggerated the riots. The Tribune, commenting on this fact, says that it is possible that this may further impress Mr Keir Hardie with the lesson which doubtless he has begnn to learn that it is, exceedingly unwise to give the press any dangerous material which it can exaggerate. . J The Daily Telegraph says that the early departure of Mr Hardie, who meditates a short stay in India before proceeding to play 1 ' the angelic fifebrand in Australia, may relieve the Indian Government of the necessity of daporting him. STRONG CRITICISM. . MELBOURNE, October 5. In the Senate, Senator Dobson denounced the mischievous, unpatriotic, and traitorous speeches of Mr Keir Hardie in India, and declared that he deserved hanging.