UNREST IN INDIA
INSTIGATOR IMPRISONED ALLEGATIONS DISPROVED (United Service.) (By Cable—Frees Assu.—Copyright.) (Reed.' October'2l, midday.) DELHI, October 1. The editor of the Calcutta Nationalist daily paper “Forward” has been sentenced to imprisonment for three months, and fined 5000 rupees, for publication, of the alleged account by “horrified eye witnesses.” Allegations were made that 50 per cent of the Indian victims of the Belur railway disaster were' knocked on the head with iron rods by the European staff of the relief train in order to save the trouble of rescue. In the course of a scathing judgment,. the Magistrate -'held that there was not the slightest foundation for the allegations. The article was written for the purpose of creating hatred of Europeans by Indians, and was published for the same motive? ■ When the police searched, the Press manuscript had disappeared. The printer-foreman was fined £67. RIOT CASUALTIES. DELHI, October 1. Surat riot casualties total 7 dead and 200 injured. Fifty arrests have been made. The town is panic-stricken, and business paralysed. Armed police are patrolling the streets.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 October 1928, Page 5
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