UNREST IN INDIA

Evening Star, Issue 20777, 27 April 1931, Page 12

UNREST IN INDIA

EASTERN BENGAL THE CURFEW INTRODUCED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. DELHI, April 24. In Chittagong, which is the centre of revolutionary activity in the Eastern Bengal district, the magistrate placed certain areas under curfew order and banned public meetings and processions. Four hundred troops have arrived in the town. At the inquiry into tho Cawnpore communal riots Mr Ryan, secretary of the Upper India Chamber of Commerce, declared that tho immediate cause was Congress tyranny, compelling the Moslems to close their shops. BOMBS IK CALCUTTA TWO FAIL TO EXPLODE. CALCUTTA, April 25. A bomb was thrown into a house on Friday night, and fell beside the chair in which an Englishwoman was sitting. Tho fuse was alight, hut was extinguished when the bomb fell to the floor. Tho bomb was similar to those used in the Bengal revolutionary activities last year. A second bomb, of a more deadly type, with the fuse half burned, was found on the lawn of the Calcutta Golf Club pavilion in tho centre of the city this morning. One arrest has been made. HINDU AND MOSLEM EFFORTS TO KEEP THE PEACE. CALCUTTA, April 26. (Received April 27, at 10 a.m.) Bengal, in common with the rest of the provinces in India, is uneasy regarding the outcome of tho Mohammedan festival, Bakrin, on Wednesday next. Appeals are being made by public men and responsible journals to the Mohammedans to celebrate the day by the slaughter of goats and to avoid tho sacrifice of cows, which are sacred to the Hindus. The latter are also exhorted to refrain from playing provocative music in the neighbourhood of tho mosques while the occupants arc engaged in prayer. The recent savagery at Cawnporo shows how suddenly these troubles develop, making the task of the authorities in keeping order most difficult with a limited police force. Most of tho dangerous centres seem to be in tho United Provinces.