DISTURBED INDIA.
ANOTHER BOMB. FOUR NATIVES INJURED. EDITOR CHARGED WITH SEDITION. BY TELEGRAPH—rRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTRIQIIT. ' (Ret. May 17, '4.14 p.m.) Calcutta, May 16. A tramcar struck 'and exploded a bomb ■vyhicli was wrapped in paper, and was laid on a' tram-lino in Calcutta. Four natives were seriously injured. .Notices in Bengali had previously been distributed, warning natives not to enter first-class tramcars, becauso, it was intended to destroy thorn. " "i Calcutta, May 15. Tho editor of tho Onjerah weekly, tho Indian Home Rule paper, has been arrested in Bombay on a chargo of sedition. In Calcutta thoro arn first-class and secondclass tramcars. Only tho better class of Indians rido in the first-class. Exceptions to tho rule are Madras and Bombay, cities whero tliero is one class of tramcar, and tho better class of white people do not greatly use the cars. . . /
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 200, 18 May 1908, Page 7
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