AMRITSAR RIOTS
GENERAL DYER'S,CASE,
(UNIT2D PRESS -ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN- N3W ZEALAND CA2LU ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 26th May. The Secretary of State for India, in a despatch to the Viceroy, Lord Chelmsford, traversing Lord "Hunter's report on the Amritsar caie, says that while admitting General' Dyer's honesty of purpose, he finds his conception 6' duty so .fundamentally at variance with what the Government has a right to expect from its uflicei'B that the Government approves of General Dyer's resignation.
[The. Daily Mail recently published the first details of the Amritsar-Punjab affair gathered from Brigadier-General Dyer, who arrived in England by the hospital ship Assaye. General Dyer declared that ho had thirty seconds to ■make Up liis mind before giving the order resulting in 500 deaths. He shot to preserve India, for the Empire, and to protect Englishmen and Englishwomen, who were looking to him for protection. If he had not given the order his whole force would have been swept away like chaff. Then what would Wave happened? Every Englishman in India approved of hi.s action. "Now lam told to go for' doing my horrible dirty duty," added General Dyer.]
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Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 126, 28 May 1920, Page 7
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187AMRITSAR RIOTS Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 126, 28 May 1920, Page 7
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