INDIAN AFFAIRS

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 April 1935, Page 7

INDIAN AFFAIRS

NO “JUBILEE” PARDONS.

[BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.]

CALCUTTA, March 30.

Contrary to the public expectation, it is announced that the Government of India are not granting any amnesty to the political prisoners in connection with the King’s Jubilee celebrations.

There has been an increase of £30,000 yearly in the Provincial cost of the detention of political offenders. , Mi 1 R. Reid, Home member - of tho Legislative Council of Bengal Province, speaking in the Council, de- . fended the increased expenditure. He said that the terrorist situation had ; improved, but it was not because of , any abandonment of revolutionary . activity. It was because of firm Gov- , eminent measures, which had disorganised the movement. CONGRESS AND TERRORISM. LONDON. March 30. “The Times’s” Delhi correspondent says; “Sir Nripendra Rath Sircar, a Law member of the Bombay Legislature. opposed a private Bill for the* repealing of the anti-terrorist law. Hoi quoted fifty-six cases of crime in Bengal in which over lifty-six Congress-t men had been convicted. He drew at- J tention to tho Congress action in glorifying the executed terrorists, ’ and to its condonation of violence. His ■ speech was obviously unpalatable to the Congressmen." VILLAGE RIOT.

BOMBAY, March 29.

A. long-standing dispute in tho village of Khuri, situated in Ajmer, over marriages between Jats and Rajputs, culminated in serious disturbances, after which the disputants, who were fully-armed, paraded the village. Captain Webb, senior officer in the district, at the head of a party of Indian Lancers, ordered the Jats to disperse and when they refused, ordered a charge. The Lancers chased the rioters homeward, injuring 100, five of them seriously.