UNREST IN INDIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9114, 13 June 1908, Page 4

UNREST IN INDIA.

With the object of lessening the facilities for'obtaining dynamite and other explosives, which are at present available to disaffected natives in India, the Vice-Regal Cjuncil of India a few days ago, so a cable informed us, passed a stringent Explosives tfill based on the English Ant. The recent bomb outrages have shown the need of an Explosives Act. Searching enquiries made by the police revealed Miat there has no doubt been an organised and extensive conspiracy, with money, brains, influence and fr.naticism at its back. The literature, the extensive plant, and the up-to-date character of appliances seized are proof of the former, while the Yogi habit and Sadlni-like appearance of some of the prisoners seem evidence of the latter. The conspirators, there is reason to believe, had designs on Poona and Tinnevelly, where recent outbreaks rendered firm magistrates obnoxious. Probably there were intended to be simultaneous outrages in three places. One of the witnesses at the preliminary investigation, who described himself as a teacher of philosophy in connection with the revolutionary movement, stated that all prepara- j

tions were on foot for a great revolutionary campaign against the Government and the Geringhis (English).