INDIAN UNREST

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 May 1931, Page 7

INDIAN UNREST

MOSLEMS KILL HINDUS. ' [BY CABLE —PEESS ASSN. —COPYEIGHT.] (Received May 8, 8 a.m.) 'CALCUTTA, May 7. The feeling existing between Hindus and Moslems was illustrated at Calcutta to-day, when Bholanath Sen, proprietor of a Hindu bookshop, and an assistant were killed, and another assistant was seriously injured by Moslems, one of whom was arrested. Sen recently published a Bengali history book wherein were passages which the Moslems declared outraged their religious feelings, and the Government stopped publication. LATER. The third man has died. CLOTH BOYCOTT. In support of the suggestion, there is a renewed Indian boycott of foreign cloth, directed mainly against Manchester goods. It is noteworthy that, whereas during the eight months prior to the boycott, India imported 124,431 packages of British piece goods and 124,902 from Japan, during the same period after the boycott 51,333 packages came from Britain, and 87,369 from Japan, showing a seventy per cent. Japanese increase. It is urged here that Lancashire must work more than four looms per weaver, and also improve marketing methods and reduce production costs, if she hopes to recover lost trade. “Lancashire must find,- new markets,” said Gandhi, when interviewed. BURMESE POLICE DESERT. DELHI, May 7. It is now learned that Burma police, who were attacked by rebels, deserted Austin and two Burmese officers, when the rebels surrounded them.