UNREST IN INDIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9120, 20 June 1908, Page 5

UNREST IN INDIA.

CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association -By Electric Telegraph Copyright.

THE NEW PRESS LAWS

HAVING AN EXCELLENT EFFECT.

Received June 19, 9.35 p.m. OALCUITA, June 19. The new press laws are having an excellenc effect in India.

The Vice-Regal Council recently passed a Press Act, which gives power to confiscate presses which issue newspapers publishing incitements to crime. The first step towards suppressive legislation was taken last year, when the Prevention of Seditious Meetings Act was passed. With the new Explosives and Press Acts, the Go. vernment will now have increased powers to deal with seditious utterances, either at meetings or in the native press, and with the traffic in explosives and bombs.

THE MOZAFFArUR MURDERER

Received June 19, 9.35 p.m. LONDON, June 19 In the Hcuse of Commons, Mr Keir Hardie enquired whether Khudiram 3ose, the Mozaffapur murperer, had not several times be2n pronounced insane. Mr T. R. Buchanan, Under-Secre-tary for India, promised to submit the statement to Viscount Moriey, Secretary for India.

Khudiram Bose lias been sentenced to death. A shocking outrage was perpetrated on May Ist at MozafFapur, where a bomb was hurled at the carriage of a Mrs Kennedy, who was driving with her daughter. Miss Kennedy and a native groom were killel, and Mrs Kennedy was so seriously injured tnat she died in a few days. The bomb was charge! with picric acid. Mrs and Miss Kennedy wcte the wife and daughttr of a Tirhoot barrisLc: 1 , and were driving home from a club. The bombthrower is a Bengali. In a full confession of his crim-i he said that he went from Calcutta to Mozaffapur with another Bet gali, Dhinesh Chandra Roy, me.ining to kill Mr Kiugsford, tho magistrate who sentenced seditiunists and in Calcutta, and had three revolvers and one bomb. He says they were incited to the outrage by the vernacular press and by the lectures of Bepin Chandra Pal, the sclitionist leader, und others. Khudiram himself threw the bomb, believing that Mr 3 Kennsdy'j carrLgo was that of Mr K'ingsford. Th.3 assassin is a miserable, at'.o uia'.ed ycu M .i of the student elii33. The horses of Mrs Kennedy's carriage bolted when the explosion occurred and stopped near ;he further entrance of Mr Kingsford's house. Mr Kingsfotd had driven over the smouldering bomb into his compound. The Calcutta police subsequently raided a housa in the northern part of the city, and found it was fitted as a workshop and laboratory, with stoics of picric acid and other explosives carefully packed and stored on the floor and on shelves. The police also found completed bombs, dynamite cartridges made by a Glasgow firm, a dozen rounds of ammunition, Express and Martini Henry rifles, a revolver, and a daggex*. They also discovered six steel trunks, these being loaded with bottlea of picric acid, bombs, tools, and correspondence, the papers seized including a list of students and pl.ins of railways. Altogether thirty m3ii were arrested. The raid revealed an extensive conspiracy backed by money, influence, brain', and religious fanaticism. Some oi the prisoners seized are Yogi?.