SITUATION IN INDIA

Evening Star, Issue 21006, 21 January 1932, Page 9

SITUATION IN INDIA

WOMEN TAKING PART IN POLITICS REMINISCENT OF SUFFRAGETTE DAYS Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. CALCUTTA, January 20. (Received January 21, at 9 a.m.) Lately women have been tr, ing an aggressive part in Indian politics, and the police have been forced into embarrassing situations in dealing with women pickets and unlawful processions, reminiscent of tho suffragette days in London. An official effort to deal with the situation is revealed in an advertisement in the Press to-day for women recruits for enlistment (uniformed) in tho Delhi police on the same terms as men. They will deal only with womenfolk. NATIONALIST LEADER ARRESTED (British Official Wireleis.) RUGBY, January 20. (Received January, 21, at noon.) Sen Bupta, the Bengal Nationalist leader, was arrested to-day under the emergency regulations on his arrival at Bombay from England. As an agitator be has attained some notoriety, and has been frequently sentenced in the past for sedition and other offences. Ho has openly advocated a fresh struggle, PESHAWAR DISTRICT CONGRESS LOSING GROUND. (British Official Wireless.) * RUGBY, January 20. (Received January 21, at noon.) A Peshawar telegram states that there are many indications that tho Peshawar district is showing a gradual return to normal conditions and an increasing distrust of Congress. Arrears, of revenue are being paid regularly. Many Red Shirt uniforms, which are the outward badge of Congress in this province, have been handed in. Picketing is decreasing.