INDIA
RIOTS IN THE PUNJAB. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright . Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, April 50. The Press Bureau has issued the Viceroy’s report of April. 28. Iu the Punjab five rioters were killed and 12 arrested in connection with the recent riot at Ghuharkama. -Mobs burned the Sanghirhill and damaged the Kaithal and Guierat Railway Stations. 'Wire-cutting continues in several districts; otherwise all is quiet. It is also quiet at Amritsar, Lahore, and on the North-west frontier. The province of Peshawur reports a movement that is esentially Hindu. _ At Delhi the position is quiet, but it is. reported that Delhi merchants axe exercising pressure on merchants elsewhere by refusing to honor their money remittances, and emissaries from Delhi are stirring up trouble in the Punjab. Bombay is quiet. There the leaders so far have restrained tho Moslems, despite a strong feeling regarding Turkey and cognate questions. Inflammatory notices addressed to tho troops have* been posted in Meerut. May 2. Sixteen persona implicated in the Punjab riots were sentenced to imprisonment or transportation, varying from life sentences to seven months. In the north-western Stats the damage to railways during tho riots is estimated at £IOO,OOO.
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Evening Star, Issue 17034, 3 May 1919, Page 6
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