DETENTION OF INDIANS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 23, 28 January 1924, Page 7

DETENTION OF INDIANS

BENGAL GOVERNMENT DEFENDS ITS ACTION i > MONEY AND ARMS FROM RUSSIA. • (BSITBD "PRESS ASSOCIATION,—COPTnI^HT ) (RCDTEII'S TBLKBKAM.) {Received 28th January, 10 a.m.) DELHI, 27th January. Despite Government opposition the Bengal Legislature carried by 66 votes to 45 a "Swarajist" resolution urging the release of seventeen' men detained without trial. The supporters of the motion criticised the Government's action in interning men without trial and failing to submit the evidence against them to cross-examination. The Government maintained that thd existence of a revolutionary conspiracy was proved, and the ordinary law was unavailing. The' Government knew that revolutionaries were establishing centres in various parts of the Province under the guise of philanthropic organisations. Some of the leaders were in touch with agents of the Moscow Third International, who supplied money and arms. The revolutionaries were possessed with weapons and considerable ammunition, which was unprocurable in India, and last year the existence of a definite plot to assassinate police officers was discovered. The Government considered- its, action imperative. A crowded meeting of Indians condemned the murder of Day in Calcutta.