UNREST IN INDIA.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19910, 23 April 1930, Page 11

UNREST IN INDIA.

GANDHI'S CAMPAIGN. NO SUPPORT FROM MOSLEMS. (TWITED PHEHS ASSOCIATION —BY ELSCTBIO TELEGRAPH—COrntIGHT.) (Received April 22nd, 11.20 p.m.) DELHI, April 22. Mohammed Yakub, Deputy-President of the Assembly, speaking at the All India Moslem Conference at Bombay, described Gandhi's campaign as lawless, and declared that the Moslems would never countenance it. It was a sham fraught with grave consequences and was bound to retard the country's peaceful progress. Mohammed Yakub praised the Viceroy for his liberality, sympathy, and sincerity. He finally appealed to the Moslems to organise and to present a united front. TWO ENGLISHMEN SHOT. INDIAN SERGEANT'S CRIME. DELHI, April 21. Two Englishmen, Mr J. L. Hutchinson, aged 45, manager of the Peshawar Cantonment branch of the Imperial Bank of India, and Mr J. S. Duns*nore, 47, the bank's travelling inspector, who left Peshawar jn a sight-seeing trip to the Khybbr Pass, were murdered near Michnikdao, between Peshawar and Llandikhana, allegedly by an Indian sergeant attached to their escort.

• The two men left Peshawar at daybreak in a hired motor-car, escorted by the sergeant and two frontier levies. It is stated that when near Michnikdao they left the car walked ahead. Suddenly the sergeant crept up and fired point blank, killing the two men instantaneously. Tho frontier levies, seeing the treachery, thereupon killed the sergeant.