INDIA’S TROUBLES

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2668, 26 August 1930, Page 5

INDIA’S TROUBLES

SERIOUS SITUATION CENTRAL PROVINCES (Aust. and N.Zb Cable) Delhi, August 25. A serious situation js reported in Be lul district, Central provinces, where the police, in attempting to arrest a member of a practically aboriginal trible called Gonds, lor a breach of tlie forest laws, found their man surornnded by several hundred Gonds.

Several police were injured. The police) “red. temporarily dispersing the Gonds, of whom one was killed.

The Gonds are reassembling in. large numbers and nO armed prtlice< have been despatched from Nagpur. It is noteworthy that the activity of Congress agitators in the Central provinees has taken the special term of encouraging a breach of the forest laws. ATTACK ON OFFICIAL HIS CAR. DR TVER WOUNDED Calcutta, August 25. The bombs were flung at the c-ar of Sir Charles Tegadt, Police Commissioner. as he was driving *n Dalholusie Square, in the centre of the European business quarter in Calcutta at 11 in tlie morning. Ho was not hurt, but the driver was wounded. The second assailant was killed, apparently hy the premature bursting of a bomb in his hand. Commissioner Tegart reaped from, his ear and chased one assailant, who was subsequently arrestc-cr, carrying two other bombs. It is helievd there re four a»sailants. Dalhousie Square is she busiest sliopping centre. the student class Tho four assailants weret of tlie Bengali student class, about 25 yearn old. Ono is dead, one wounded and perhaps dead, while the remaining two were arrested. The incident is causing great, excitement among the Europeans little busings i«- cluing.