ENFORCING LAW
FIRM HAND IN INDIA
BOYCOTT AND PICKETING
TEOOPS ON THE MOVE
United Press Association —By Electric Telopraph—Copyright. DELHI, 15th June. The Government intends firmly to enforce the ordinance for the prevention of intimidation in picketing and boycotting. Troops have arrived from Poona and elsewhere. They include artillery and British and Indian infantry. The Manchester regiment is standing by at Poona, but in defianco of tho ordinance hundreds of congress volunteers yesterday picketed .all liquor shops in the city. There was much rioting at Bombay, where a crowd of congress volunteers tore down Union Jacks and burned them in a bonfire. Ten were killed and many injured in a clash between police and villagers at Klierai, near Khargpur, in Bengal. The police, who were attempting to arrest agitators, were attacked by a mob numbering thousands, and were compelled to fire in self'protection.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 139, 16 June 1930, Page 9
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143ENFORCING LAW Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 139, 16 June 1930, Page 9
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