BOMBS IN INDIA.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 201, 26 August 1930, Page 7

BOMBS IN INDIA.

CALCUTTA SENSATION.

Attempt to Assassinate Police

Commissioner.

ONE ASSAILANT KILLED

(United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright)

(Received 9.30 a.m.)

DELHI. August 2.5,

Two bombs were thrown at. the Commissioner of Police in a crowded thoroughfare at Calcutta. A shot was fired at one of the perpetrators, and a second one blew himself up. There were four assailants of the Bengali student class, aged about 25 years. One is dead, one was wounded and is now probably dead, and the remaining two were arrested. The tombs were flung at a motor car in which Sir Charles Tegart, the Commissioner, was driving in Dalhousie Square, a very busy shopping area, and the centre of the European business quarter, at 11 a.m. Sir Charles was not hurt, but Ms driver was wounded. The assailant who was killed apparently lost his life through the premature bursting of a bomb in his hand. Sir Charles leapt from the car and chased another of his assailants, who subsequently was arrested. He was carrying two more bombs.

FOREST LAW BREACHES.

NEW DISOBEDIENCE.

DELHI, August 25.

A serious situation is reported to have arisen in the Betul district, Central Provinces. The police were attempting to arrest a member of a practically aboriginal.tribe called the Gonds, tor a breach of the forest laws. They found their man surrounded by several hundred Gonds.

As several of tbe police were injured by the natives they fired, temporarily dispersing the Gonds, of whom one was killed.

It is reported that the Gonds are reassembling in large numbers and 50 armed police have been dispatched from Nagpur to reinforce those on the scene.

It is noteworthy that the activity of Congress agitators in the Central Provinces has taken the special form of encouraging breaches of the forest laws.