AN INDIAN KILLED

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 242, 26 July 1935, Page 5

AN INDIAN KILLED

SOLDIERS FIGHf IN VILLAGE.

TROOPS CONFINED TO BARRACKS.

(United Press Association —Copyright)

LONDON, July 24. The Simla correspondent of the- “ Daily Herald” says the entire first, -battalion of the King’s Liverpool Regiment is confined to barracks at Jubbulpore, and the soldiers are ; forbidden to speak to one another/ pending an inquiry after village fights. It is stated that a soldier frightened women in the of KaA rodi, upon which other villagers attacked him. Some of his comrades, armed with sticks, embarked upon reprisals, and raided an adijoinirig village, believing it to be Karodi. They injured 13 villagers, one of whom died.

Mr C. R. Attlee (deputy-leader of the Labour party) will demand a statement in the House of Commons.

AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT.

INVESTIGATION BEING MADE.

(Received! This Day, 11.35 a.m.) LONDON, July 25

The Under-Secretary of, State for India (Mr R. A. Butler) answered a question in the House of Commons regarding the .reported incident near Jubbulpore, in India, in which British soldiers and Indian villagers were concerned. He said that the India Office had received only a brief telegraphed report of this regrettable incident, but a more detailed account would be received when the looai investigations were complejed. 'The Minister read an official statement issued at Simla, saying that on Wednesday, July 17, the women of the village of Karodi were frightened by a British soldier and, fearing molestation, gave the alarm, whereupon some villagers turned out and' assaulted the soldier, who was rescued by an individual from another village, arid who was now in hospital. The next night a party of men from the regiment raided another village, mistaking it for Karodi, with the results already cabled. The local military commander began an investigation, in consultation with the civil authorities.—British Official Wireless.