SEDITION IN INDIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9163, 11 August 1908, Page 5

SEDITION IN INDIA.

CABLE NEWS.

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EXEMPLARY SENTENCES. SECRET' ASSASSINATION SOCIETY. Received August 10, 8.50 a.m. CALCUTTA, Augusts The editor of the Calcutta newspaper, "Marathi,"has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment with hard labour on a charge of sedition. Three persons, accused of secreting bombs and explosives in Harrisonroad, Calcutta, were sentenced to sevejn yeara' imprisonment. The judge said he believed them to be members of a secret assassination society, which was plotting a revolntion. Three other accused persons were acquitted. They will be tried in another case at Alipur, with thirty others. Following upon the bomb outrage at Muzafferpore, in Bengal, the Calcutta police unearthed an extremely grave conspiracy, having as its object the destruction of' European lives by means of explosives. The authorities raided eight separate houses in Calcutta, and arrested thirty persons, who will have to answer charges of abetment of murder and conspiracy. Enormous quantities of gunpowder, dynamite and picric acid —the chief ingredient in lyddite — were seized, together with a number of ready-made bombs, detonators, and equipment for the production of infernal machines. The police captures included important correspondence, Anarchistic literature, and other papers, which are expected to throw a lurid light on the intentions and methods of the Indian imitators of the Russian Terrorist societies. Everything points to the existence of a carefully-managed organisation with a considerable financial backing. The movement has been on foot for a considerable time, and its ramifications are widespread. Some of the men apprehended are of substantial position, and one of them was a chemist, who was sent to Paris to study the latest methods of Anarchist terrorism. Evidence was found of the establishment of schools for the manufacture of bombs.