BOYCOTT WEAPON

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 189, 8 May 1931, Page 9

BOYCOTT WEAPON

Reappearance in Calcutta

CONGRESS PICKETING

Reply to Trade Protest

GIBES IN DELHI PRESS

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright (Rec. May 7, 7.30 p.m.) Calcutta, May 7. The picketing of shops soiling Lancashire cloth was resumed today in the city by Congress volunteers. This campaign had ceased in the bazaars since the Irwin-Gandhi agreement was made, but its resumption Is excused on the ground that it does not come within the scope of the agreement.

Headed by local Congress leaders pickets visited shops and stood with folded hands exhorting merchants and customers to have nothing to do with foreign cloth. A police officer accompanied the procession, but no action was taken, the pickets carefully explaining that they were aqting within the agreement, which sanctioned boycott by peaceful picketing. According to a Delhi message, Manchester’s protest against the boycott of British cotton goods and request for a reduction in Indian import duties on textiles are gleefully splashed in the Nationalist papers with headings, “Manchester’s Wail.” FIGHTING IN BURMA Police Killed by Rebels SWIFT PUNITIVE ACTION Delhi, May 6. A large party of Burma rebels attacked a detachment of police near Prome, and it is feared that the District Superintendent of Police, Mr. Austin, and several officers and men were killed. Three survivors, who reached the police headquarters, stated that they were surrounded and had no time to pick up their arms.

A Burman officer, hearing the new;s, set out with a large party of police, encountered sixty rebels, killed seven, and wounded many.