TERRORISM IN BENGAL.
WORK OF A SMALL BODY OF MEN. (si cable—rsess association —eorramat; (RCUTES'S TUIGUXS.! DELHI, XoTCtnb«r Speaking at Xalda, Lord Lytton (Governor of Bengal) said the peace- of Bengal and the lives of its cittaens were threatened by a comparatively small body of men who introduce terrorism into their political programme. seeking to murder those whom they hate or fear. to over-afro t>y tlireats of murder those whoso political activities aro inconvenient, or objectionable* to them and to import foreign arms and ammunition into the country for tho purpow of making their terrorism effective. Every single man who was arrested under Regulation 3 of 1918, or tin? now ordinance, was a member of a terrorist Organisation. Every man who was arrested was not detained on isolated statements by a single informer. l>ut on evidence from many different quarters. Two more incidents on tho Eastern Bengal railway bring up the number of attempts at train-wrecking on this railway to five in three weeks. Th® authorities made a statement, that while enquiries definitely establish tb« existence of a campaign of trainwrecking, at present there was no evidence to connect it with revolutionary political motives.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18241, 27 November 1924, Page 9
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