INDIA’S HORROR AND INDIGNATION

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 146, 15 March 1940, Page 10

INDIA’S HORROR AND INDIGNATION

Shooting Condemned (Received March 15, 1.45 a.m.) LONDON, March 14. A message from New Delhi says that news of the shooting in Caxton Hall aroused feelings of horror and indignation and put the Finnish news into the background. Calcutta reports that tlie Premier of Bengal Province said: “The Indian continent joins the world in condemning tlie abominable tragedy and congratulates tlie Marquess of Zetland on his providential escape. It hopes he will long be spared to guide the destinies of India.” ~ The newspaper “Star of India says: “However bitter India may have felt against Sir Michael O’Dwyer, she hangs her head in shame, for no one wished his death.” _ . The Bombay Nationalist Press joins in the condemnation. One paper says: “Tlie shooting ren'dered a distinct disservice to the cause of the freedom of India. Sir Michael O'Dwyer died a martyr.” Lord Zetland spent a comfortable night at his home in Mayfair. His only injury is a grazed rib, and no operation will be necessary. Sit* Louis Dane is in estminstci Hospital ail’d is in a fairly comfortable condition, and Lord Lamington. who is at his home at Wilton Place, passed a good night.

Tlie Indian arrested in connexion with the assassination of Sir Michael O’Dwyer, is 37 years of age and is described as an engineer living in London "(states Daventry). He made a statement saying that he did not mean to kill anybody but to protest. He appeared in Court on a charge of mui'der. Formal evidence was taken and the prisoner was remanded for a week.