SWARAJ.
ON TOP IN BENGAL. (BY CABLE —PI*ESS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT.) (BEUTEE'S TELEGKAMS.) DELHI, January 27. Despite Government opposition, the Bengal Legislature carried by 66 votes to 45 a Swarajist resolution urging the release of 17 men detained without trial. Supporters of the ' motion criticised the Government's action in interning men without trial and failing to submit to cross-examination evidence against them. The Government- maintained that conspiracy had been proved and tho ordinary law was unavailing. The Government knew that revolutionaries were establishing centres in various parts of the province in the guise of philanthropic organisations. Some leaders were in touch with agents of the Moscow Third International, who supplied money and arms. The revolutionaries possessed weapons and considerable ammunition not procurable in India, and last year the existence of a definite plot to assassinate police officers was discovered. The Government considered its action imperative.
A crowded meeting of Indians condemned the murder of Ernest Day, who was fatally shot in Calcutta by a Bengali, who mistook him for a police officer.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 17983, 29 January 1924, Page 7
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