BENGAL TERRORISTS
■ TWENTY-FOUR YOUTHS ARRESTED PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright CALCUTTA, September 28. Twenty-four youths have been arrested in connection with the Chittagong outrage. All vehicular and pedestrian traffic has been forbidden between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. in or near the Anglo-Indian quarters. . . The Bengal European Association states that in view of the growth of the terrorist movement in the province and threats against the lives of Europeans generally it is opposed to the granting of a further measure of constitutional reforms in Bengal while the lawless conditions continue.
[Terrorists armed with stolen police rifles, revolvers, and bombs raided the Assam-Bengal Railway Institute at Pahartali (Chittagong) when a social gathering was in progress. The raiders threw a bomb inside, killing an aged European woman and wounding two police officers and six Europeans. The raiders escaped.]
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Evening Star, Issue 21220, 29 September 1932, Page 9
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140BENGAL TERRORISTS Evening Star, Issue 21220, 29 September 1932, Page 9
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