FOR CIVIL TRIAL
SOLDIERS ACCUSED OF MURDER.
SEQUEL TO RIOT IN INDIA.
TWENTY-THREE MEN CHARGED
United Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) SIMLA, August 29.
Twenty-three men of the Ist Battalion of the- King’s Liverpool Regiment have been handed' over to the civil authorities for trial on charges of murder in connection with the 'rioting near Juhbulipore in July.
The Simla correspondent of the “Daily Herald” reported: It is stated that a soldier frightened women in the village of Karodi, upon- which other villagers attacked him. Some of his comrades, armed with sticks, embarked upon reprisals, and raided l an adjoining village, lielievingl it to be Karodi. They injured 13 villagers, one of whom died. In tho House of Commons the Undersecretary of State for India read an official statement issued at Simla, saying that on 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, and who was now in hospital. Tho next night a party of men from the regiment raided another village, mistaking it for Karodii, with the results already cabled.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 272, 30 August 1935, Page 5
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