INDIAN HAPPENINGS

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 December 1934, Page 7

INDIAN HAPPENINGS

NATIVE MINISTERS. [BY CABLE—PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, December 15. “The Times’s” Bombay correspondent says: A conference of Indian Native State Ministers welcomed the proposed Indian Constitution as a manifold advance on the White Papei proposals, particularly the financia. provisions, which should be generally acceptable to the Native States, subject to reservations, but a final decision is impossible pending the text of the Bill being published. SEDITIONIST SENTENCED. BOMBAY, December 15. Abdul Gaffer, leader of the NorthWest Frontier Redshirt movement, who was recently arrested on a charge of sedition, has been sentenced to two years’ rigorous imprisonment. DOCK STRIKE ENDED. CALCUTTA, December 16. After seriously dislocating the trade of the port for 20 days, 15,000 Calcutta dock strikers are returning to work, to-morrow. They have decided to break away from the Port and Dockers’ Union, which they described as a Communist organisation. TRAIN WRECKERS. CALCUTTA, December 16. A woman passenger was killed, and many were seriously injured, including the driver and fireman, of the Rangoon to Mandalay express, which was derailed through the deliberate removal of fish-plates near a bridge.. 117 miles from Rangoon. Three carriages crashed into a ditch, and were smashed to matchwood. The engine and several other carriages capsized. Fortunately, most of the wrecked carriages were empty; otherwise, a heavy death-roll was likely.