NATIVE UNREST.
UNION JACKS BURNED.
Indian Congress Volunteers'
Insult to Britain.
TEN DEATHS IN RIOTING.
(United P.A.-Electric Telegraph-Copyright)
DELHI, June 15
The Government of India intends firmly to enforce the ordinance for tlio prevention of intimidation, picketing unci boycotting. The troops who have arrived from Poona and elsewhere include artillery and British and Indian infantry. . The Manchester Regiment is standing by at Poona, but in defiance of the ordinance hundreds of Congress volunteers yesterday picketed all the liquor shops in the city. There was much rioting at Bombay,where a crowd of Congress volunteers tore down the Union Jacks and made a bonfire of them. Ten persons were killed and many others injured in a riotous clash between the police and villagers at Kherai, near Khargpur, in Bengal.
The pol'ce, who were attempting to arrest agitators, were attacked by a mob of thousands of people and were compelled to lire in self-protection.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 140, 16 June 1930, Page 7
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