INDIAN TERRORISTS

Evening Star, Issue 21012, 28 January 1932, Page 9

INDIAN TERRORISTS

MURDER DF MAGISTRATE TWO GIRLS SENTENCED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. CALCUTTA, January 27. Two gilds who were charged with the murder of Mr Stevens, a magistrate, wore sentenced to transportation for life to-day. Two rioters were killed when the police fired on a violent Congress crowd which attempted to hold a meeting at Motihari, in Bihar. Several police were injured by stones. TRAIN DERAILED CALCUTTA, January 27. The Calcuftn-Bennres express wtia derailed for the second time in two days near Patna. The rails had again been tampered with. Six carriages went off the line, but miraculously there were no casualties. MDB VIOLENCE i . VILLAGES SACKED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. CALCUTTA, January 27. (Received January 28, at 10.30 a.m.) Several villages in the Rajouri and Kotli districts in Kashmir were sacked by armed mobs, and the revolt is spreading. The massacre of Hindus was averted at Rajouri by the troops, but several are reported to have been killed by the rioters. Many police were injured. Thre was serious rioting in connection with the Independence celebrations at Bombay, when the mobs looted and burned two police stations, and the adjoining buildings. The rioters smashed street lamps, broke fire alarms, overwhelmed the police, and set fire to the stations. The inhabitants were panic stricken. LORD IRWIN'S VIEWS GOVERNMENT’S ACTION JUSTIFIED. (British Official Wireless.) ’ RUGBY, January 27. (Received January 28, at 11.30 a.m.) Speaking at Leeds on the situation in India, Lord Irwin (ex-Viceroy) said he could not doubt that the responsibility for the recent rupture lay with the Congress Party. The construction of a constitution gave Congress abundant opportunities, and for that reason, he said, its action had been unnecessary and unjustifiable. He thought ,that both the Government here and the,Government in India had no choice but to take the action they had taken during the last few weeks. It had been suggested that they had gone back on the., policy' pursued when he was Viceroy. That was a complete misrepresentation of the facts. The Government disliked the application of the present policy as much as,anyone else, and there was nothing vindictive about its action He djd not'suppose if he had been m India to-day he would have acted any differently from the present v iueroy.