UNREST IN INDIA.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 3778, 3 May 1919, Page 2

UNREST IN INDIA.

AN UNSATISFACTORY OUTLOOK

(Aub.-N.Z. Cable Association.)

London, April 30

The Press Bureau has isued the Viceroy's report to April 28. Iv Punjab, five rioters were killed and 12 arrested in connection wit ha recent riot at Ghukarkama.

Mobs burned Sanghirhill and dare stations.

Wire-cutting continues in several districts, otherwise all is quiet. It is also quiet at Aniritsar, Lahore, and the, north-west- frontier province of Peshawar 'reports a movement essentially Hindu . x

At Delhi the position is quiet, but it is reported that tho merchants are exercising presurc on the merchants elsewhere, by refusing to honour their money remittances, and emissaries from Delhi are stirring up trouble in Punjab.

Bombay is quiet. Their leaders, so far, havo. restrained the Moslems, despite strong feeling regarding Turkey and cognate questions. Inflammatory notices addressed to the trops have been posted in Meerut.

Sixteen persons implicated in the Punjab riots have been sentenced to imprisonment or transportation varying from life sentences to seven rrfonths in a north-western State. The damage to railways during the riots is estimated at £100,000.