AT PESHAWAR

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 56, 8 March 1922, Page 7

AT PESHAWAR

AN UNEXPECTED AFFRONT

THE PRINCE OF WALES'S VISIT

EFFECTIVE HARTAL IN NATIVE

CITY.

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(ACSTBAUAN - KBW ZBALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) DELHI, 6th March.

The native city of Peshawar offered the Prince of Wales an unexpected affront by putting- irp the shutters during the State drive through the main streets to receive a provincial address. The hartal was the more surprising because the city pursued it« wonted life on the day of the Prince's arrival, and watched with keen interest the preparations for decorating the squares and bazaars' This was the first time the Prince had driven through the' heart of any purely native quarter. Hitherto he had merely skirted the fringe. The authorities did not anticipate trouble of any kind. Political agitators had been busy, particularly those working on behalf of the Caliphate organisation, but no effect was perceptible until yesterday, when a campaign of intimidation began to yield results, and merchants were warned that shops would be burned if they opened today. Wild stories of a general rising were/ in The police promptly arrested a few of the leading agitators, whereupon the majority of the shops closed, and not one was open when the Prince drove through, the streets, lined! with native infantry and British.-troops, the latter being stationed at the end of the route. The natives did not hide themselves behind shutters, but simply locked their doors, put up heavy wooden hoardings as a sign of mourning; and Bat on the balconies or roofs and watchedl the procession. There were a few cheers raised in the Square,' chiefly by children, but the great majority of the Indians gazed on the proceedings in silence. .After receiving the address the Prince returned to Government House by a different route. There was no disorder of any kind.