TO WAGE WAR.
PLOT REVEALED.
Two-year Trial at Calcutta Ends in Sentences. ARMED RISING PLANNED. (United P.A.— Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 10 a.m.) CALCUTTA, May 1. After a trial lasting nearly two years, in which 500 witnesses were examined, 31 men were convicted by a special tribunal at Calcutta on a charge of conspiracy to wage war against the King. Six were sentenced to life transportation, three to 10 years' imprisonment, nine to seven years, and the remainder from six to one year. Four were acquitted, but two of tliein were immediately rearrested under the Criminal Law Amendment Act, while two who turned King's evidence were pardoned.
The conspiracy was described as aimed to promote a simultaneous armed rising throughout India and Burma, to facilitate which men were recruited and arms, explosives and funds obtained through widespread dacoites, robberies and murders.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 102, 2 May 1935, Page 7
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140TO WAGE WAR. Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 102, 2 May 1935, Page 7
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