TH E INDIAN UNREST
. - i ' Vi , " . n ATTEMPT ON A LIEUTENANTGOVERNOR. THE ANARCHIST PROPAGANDA. Prdss>'Association—3y Telegraph—Copyright. CALCUTTA, November 9. 'As Professor Burton, of Chicago TJniver fity, was about to give a lecture in the Oveitoun Hall, Northern Calcutta, a Bengali youth, who afterwards gave tjie name of Roy Chowdbury, rushed forwaid and thrust a revolver within 6in of LieutenantGovernor Fraser, pulling the trigger twice, but the weapon missed fire. The assailant was .disarmed. Meanwhile'the Maharajah Buidwan had stepped forward and shielded Lieutenant-Governor Fraser. This is the fourth attempt upon Lieutenant-Governor Prater’s life. Tho ‘ Englishman ’ considers that the Anarchist propaganda m India is deeper and wider than anybody supposed. (Received November i(), at 8.56 a.m.) Chowdbury is a student at the Scottish Assembly’s institution, aul a son .>! tie pleader Chowdbury. He implicates two other students m connection wiMi the attack upon the Lieutenant-Governor.
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Evening Star, Issue 13104, 10 November 1908, Page 6
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142THE INDIAN UNREST Evening Star, Issue 13104, 10 November 1908, Page 6
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