INDIAN CONSPIRACY

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 September 1923, Page 5

INDIAN CONSPIRACY

TO DRIVE OUT BRITISH.

MURDER TRIAL REVELATIONS.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) DELHI, September 19. A Calcutta message states that the - existence of a revolutionary society, , whose object is to drive out the Eng- ■ lish from India, was alleged to-day in , a case known as the Alipore conspiracy case, in which eight young men, in-

cluding five students, were charged with dacoity and murder. ) The prosecution asserted that they ■ planned to build up a fund with the > object of achieving their purpose and committed dacoities in order to secure mottey, which the members were not permitted to use for their own benefit. The prosecution stated that the arrests were made in consequence of a statement made by a man sentenced to death in connection with the murder of a branch postmaster in Calcutta on August 3, wherein he alleged that members took an oath to disregard family ties ~to take life, and sacrifice their own if necessary. Particulars were given of five armed dacoities alleged to have been committed in the Calcutta district by the accused between May and August, including three attended by murder. One of the accused, tendered a pardon, gave evidence identifying the remainder, and substantiatin'g the allegations of the prosecution. ANTI-BRITISH DECISIONS. DELHI, September 18. The Indian Nationalist Congress executive has carried by 23 votes to nine a resolution declaring that the Kenya

decision proves that India cannot re main a member of the British Empire and must now seriously consider th< advisability of working “swaraj,” in dependent of the British connection. A proposal suggesting retailiatioi; by a severance of commercial relations with the dominions and colonies, anc boycott of the Empire Exhibition, was rejected, the speakers stating that’ the original resolution was comprehensive. DELHI, September 19. The Nationalist Congress had a heated debate, and confirmed the resolution for boycotting the British Empire goods, as a protest; against the Kenya decision, thus reversing a previous decision, refusing to single out British goods in the interest of the consumer. Some of the speeches were hotly anti-British.