IN INDIA.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20016, 26 August 1930, Page 11

IN INDIA.

trouble with gonds. SERIOUS SITUATION REPORTED. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—Bt ELSCTBIO T2LS<JBAriI—CorYKIQHT.) (Received August 25th, 10.45 p.m.) DELHI, August 25. A serious situation is reported in the Batul district in the CJentral Provinces. The police, when attempting to arrest Cajan, a member of a practically ■aboriginal tribe called Gonds, for breach of the forest laws, found their man surrounded by several hundred Gonds. Several police were injured. The police nred, temporarily dispersing the Gonds, of whom one was killed. The Gonds are reassembling in large numbers. Fifty armed police have been dispatcher from Nagpur. 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. ATTACK ON POLICE COMMISSIONER. BOMBS THROWN IN CALCUTTA. (Received August 26th, 12.47 a.m.)

. DELHI, August 20. Bombs wore flung at the car of Sir Charles Tegart, Police Commissioner, as lie was driving in square, in the centre of the European business quarter of Calcutta, at 11 o'clock this morning. Sir Charles was not hurt, but his driver was wounded. A second assailant was killed, apparently by the premature bursting of a bomb in his hand. The Commissioner leapt from his car and chased one assailant, who was subsequently arrested. He was carrying two other bombs. It Was believed that there were four assailants.

Dalhousie square is the busiest shopping centre in the city. Tho four assailants were of the Bengali student class, about twenty-five years old. One is dead, one is Wounded, and the remaining two have been arrested. The Incident is causing great excitement among the Europeans.