SITUATION IN INDIA
RENEWED HOSTILE DEMONSTRATIONS POLICY OF TOLERATION FAILS Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. DELHI, April 27. Replying to an address of landowners, Sir Geoffrey do Montmorency, Governor of the Punjab, declared that tho answer to tho Government’s recent policy of toleration had been a renewal of hostile demonstrations and incitement to violence. Tho time had come to control it, and the Government would undertake the task without further ado. NORTH-WEST FRONTIER GRAVE SITUATION. DELHI, April 27. A grave situation prevails on the North-west Frontier, and tho Administration may have to ask the Central Government for powers to prevent the spread of hostile subvei’sive movements. The trouble is being caused by “Red Shirts ” and a youthful league at Charsadda, tho members of which arc openly anti-British. PRECAUTIONS AT CHITTAGONG TROOPS PATROLLING STREETS. DELHI, April 27. (Received April 28, at 9 a.m.) Tho threat of a repetition of tho revolutionary' outbreak of last year has led to stringent-measures at Chifc-tao-ong, where in addition to strong forces of police 500 Gurkha troops are picketing tho streets, which armoured cars are constantly patrolling. Several suspected terrorists’ houses have been searched, and fourteen people haic been arrested.
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Evening Star, Issue 20778, 28 April 1931, Page 9
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