TROUBLE WITH GONDS
BREACH OF FOREST LAWS
POLICE REINFORCED
DELHI, 25th August,
A serious situation is reported in the Betul district, Central Provinces, where police, attempting to arrest Cajan,_ a member of a practically aboriginal tribe eallod Gonds, for a breach of the forest laws, fouud their man snrrounded by several hundred Gonds. Several j police were injured. The police fired, temporarily dispersing the Gonds, of whom one was killed. The Gonds are reassembling in large numbersi Fifty armed police have been dispatched from Nagpur. I It is noteworthy that the activity of Congress agitators in the Central Provinces has taken the special form of encouraging a breach of the forest laws.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 49, 26 August 1930, Page 9
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112TROUBLE WITH GONDS Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 49, 26 August 1930, Page 9
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