CONTRABAND SALT
AND BANNED LITERATURE
RIOT IN BOMBAY
DELHI, 12th April. Agitators in Calcutta are trying a new device to harass the Government and Customs officials. In addition to offering for public sale small packets of contraband salt, the extremists read at public meetings extracts from seditious literature which had already been proscribed by the Government. In a sharp clash between polieo and students, thirteen were injured and thirty arrests were made. Sen Gupta, Mayor of Calcutta, was again arrested on a charge of publicly reading proscribed literature. I A mob in, Bombay attacked a police I van carrying prisoners sentenced for offences against the salt law. Ten I persons were injured.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 88, 14 April 1930, Page 11
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112CONTRABAND SALT Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 88, 14 April 1930, Page 11
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