INDIA.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 273, 11 August 1908, Page 7

INDIA.

SENTENCES FOR SECRETING OF BOMBS. ASSASSINATION SOCIETY. FIVE YEARS' GAOL FOR AN EDITOR. (liV TELEGIUrn—riIESS ASSOCIATION —COFIKIGUT.) Calcutta, August 9. . The editor of a Calcutta newspaper published in Marathi has been sentenced to live years' imprisonment with hard labour on a charge of sedition. Three persons, accused of secreting borab3 and explosives in Harrison Road, Calcutta, were sentenced to seven years' imprisonment. The judge said ho believed them to bo members of a secret assassination society, which was plotting a revolution. Threo other accused persons were acquitted. They will bo tried in another case at Alipur, with thirty others.

BOMB COLLEGE AND "GRADUATES." Reuter's correspondent at Calcutta telegraphs:—The investigations following upon the recent raids on Anarchist dens here prove the existence of a revolutionary plot on a vast scale, and show that there was_ a systematically organised "college" at Hanicktola House, where bombs were manufactured and instruction in explosives was given. The scheme wns to divide India into districts, each of which was to furnish two graduates, and thus to spread the poison broadcast over tho whole country. An examination of tho completed bombs found at the "college" proves that they were of a most powerful and deadly character. A high official declares that many more must exist, and that at least six months must have been employed in their manufacture. The prisoners talk freely of their "horoic conduct" and "noble design," while refusing to impart any information incriminating those working behind the scenes and furnishing the funds. They all confess, however, that their minds have been fired by writings in tho Press and speeches on platforms.