STRIFE IN INDIA.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20197, 27 March 1931, Page 15

STRIFE IN INDIA.

COMMUNAL RIOTS. A BBI6N OP TERROR IN (3AWNPORE. {CKITUp PBSBS ' ABSPCUTIO*—mT ELECTJUO W4JOBWH—BOPTTBiaHT.) ' PEIJJI, March 815, There!:ww. pwe cemmunal in Pawnpre yesterday and Mlowing the Jjßftwe executions, , Twenty person? were Hilled and 130 injured. The rietere laeted and set fire to shop? i» Cawnppre, British trptfps were palled out at midnight, followed some hquys laterbyauxili^ry twm- Tempos ao4 wflßqwefi H ve feien h>Qted> wifl H incendiary fires p°; QHpigd the brigades AtMhn were m&de upon $£ ..fiwresey *«'• See, (Oourts, and telegraph Bwifc i fife tronble started when Mmlm* refused to participate W WfJWg the exeouted wen, SaniP n? r of both poffimunitiea, taking »d« yaotairs of the situation, created. a r§?gft e f terrpr, indulging in burnings ana lootings, ftlso 0«" PBrred in Peshawar, where the dempnstrators wrecked a Uqflor shop-

BOYCOTT OF BRITISH ' GOODS. jp?f JiJCT IN TJJXTJfcB INDUSTRY' terns ompiAir wiaww-i BTJGBY, March 25. The Inaten hoyeett and e£e«t on the Lancashire cotton industry Were dfecupged in tw House of Oommona, when Captain Pi 3. Sacking tive memher for Ohorley) maintained that the Irwin-(?andhi .agreement had not eased the ftitnatiQJl. He had been informed that boycotting and pxcltpt* ing were supported by those elosely connected with the Indian textile .in* dustry. It designed not to improve the material condition of Indm as a whole, but actually to place fortunes in the pe°kets of a comparatively email number p* ipdian millewnersj at the expense of millions of ,J. Kenwortljy (lifthpur member tor Central Hull) emphssiseft this pojnt, and strongiy criticised eonditipne in the IndmnSamnel (Jjiheral member for Bapwin) said ov both sides coercion ought tft 'be Rh ndoned, There was a ppssihility of mUitarj pressure W fv ai4e, and' pf ecqnpmic pressure on the tlje Secretly Pf State for India Wr W- Bepn), ea id that the eettlemeftt reached hefrween the Vi«ero? ( L I^ N aSja WOHid he Fecrapefl rfjp y Wo j nonaresa at Karachi in the J ew dayf. As f»» as hs wae aware the elawse in the ag r ecmept reg^ d «i Biofeeting wft? hemg implemented' Lttiement clearly laid that prep: sure and' eaerejon should eease, and that boycott, of British goods, as a political weapon W tq . be dlß</9A " tinuod. - v