FIGHT IN INDIAN VILLAGE
INVESTIGATIONS BEING MADE (narnsa official wrßSXEss.i RUGBY, July 25. Mr R. A. Butler, Under-Secretarj for India, answering a question in the House of Commons about the reported incident near Jubbulpore, in India, in which British soldier; and Indian villagers were concerned, said that the. India Office had so far only a brief telegraphic report of this regrettable incident, but a more detailed account would be received when the local investigations were completed. He read an official statement issued at Simla saying that on July 17 a woman of the village of Karodi was frightened by a British soldier, and fearing molestation gave the alarm, whereupon some villagers turned out and assaulted the soldier, who was rescued by an individual from another .village, and who is now in hospital. The next night, a party of nun from his reginfnt raided another vil age, mistaking it for Karodi, and injured 13 villagers, of whom one had since di The local military commander harV begun an investigation in conSttatiSTwith the civil authorities.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21536, 27 July 1935, Page 17
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