THE INDIAN UNREST.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 51, Issue 25, 10 November 1930, Page 5

THE INDIAN UNREST.

AFRIDIS SEEK PEACE. FEARS OF A BLOCKADE. (Dinted Press Association —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.15 a.m.) DELHI, November 9. The Afrjdis are seeking peace. Haying come at last to realise what damage five squadrons of the =*Royal Air Force aeroplanes can do, and fearing that with the approach ot winter and the Government s blockade their food problem may be acute, they have approached the British Government and asked for a conference to settle the matters which were not settled at the recent abortive conference. The British are now in a position to lay down terms which will ensure the permanent safety of Peshawar.

MOB ATTACKS POLICE.

MAN HURT BY REVOLVER SHOT.

(Received This Day 7 , 9.15 a.m.) DELHI, November 9. The police were forced to fire on an unruly mob in Bombay. A partv of constables returning to the station after dispersing rowdy demonstrators were attacked bv a mob. The police fired their revolvers into the air. One man was injured. Then they had to fight their way through. Two members of the “People s Battalion” went to the Bombay High Court, where the Union Jack was pulled down and the Congress flag hoisted. AFFRAY ON THE FRONTIER. LOSS OF LIFE RESULTS.

DELHI, Nov. 8. Wild tribesmen yesterday swooped down on a North-West Frontier police lorry at Loralai, killed the driver and head constable, and captured a rifle and five hundred rounds of animumtKHidden behind boulders, the tribesmen punctured the tyres of the lorry with rifle shots. Their fire was hotly returned bv the police escort, several of whom were founded in a hand-to-hand battle. Troops were rusliGcl to tlic scGnCj but the raiders escaped. Simultaneously a clash occurred betwGcni a party of raiders and frontiei levies near Kalat. Ten raideis i\eie of several thousands last night attacked the Marbawadi police station in Bombay, and stoned the ocupants, twenty of whom, _ including the superintendent and six officers, were injured. Police reinforcements dispersed the crowd after a sei ies of baton charges, injuring 200.