BOMB OUTRAGE.

Hastings Standard, Volume XIII, Issue 4312, 16 November 1909, Page 5

BOMB OUTRAGE.

ON VICEROY MINTO. A DASTARDLY DEED. London, November 15 While Earl and lady Minto, who were visiting Ahmedabed, were driving from the station and nearing the RaipurGate, a Hindoo in the dense crowd was seen throwing missiles. They proved to be two bombs. A sergeant of the Inniskilling Dragoons, riding alongside the carriage, cleverly intercepted the first bomb with his sabre. The second hit the Viceroy's Jemadar, who was holding an umbrella over Lady Minto, and it fell harmlessly to the ground. The soil was sardy, which explains the failure of the bombs to explode. Quite unmoved, Lord and Lady Minto drove on, completing their pre-arranged drive through the city. A sweeper picked up one of the bombs, and broke it against his catt. The explosion shattered his hand. The other bomb, unexploded, was found in the same vicinity. Both bombs were of the cocoanut pattern, and contained picric acid. After the outrage, special precautions were taken to safeguard the Viceroy, and vigorous inquiries are proceeding. (Received 15,11.35 p.m) Lord and Lady Minto have arrived in Baroda, where the Gaekwar warmly welcomed them. "The Times" remarks that the attempt to assassinate the Viceroy, than whom no man has worked harder on behalf of reform, will evoke throughout the Empire a feeling of profound horror, mingled with intense relief at the failure of the plot- Doubtless the Anarchists hoped by striking at the head of the Government to produce a feeling of insecurity among all members and officials of that Government as would terrorise the Administration. In this they would have been disappointed, nor could any such menaces cause Great Britain to waver in the execution of reforms. But that those alone would not stop sedition, and that they must be accompanied by the most stringent repression of so called political crime, was made clearer than ever by this latest outrage. * INDIGNATION IN INDIA. THE CAUSE OF THE BITTERNESS. (Received 16, 8.5 a.m.) London, November 15. " The Daily News" says that nowhere will the public indignation be more genuine over the attempt on the lives of Lord and Lady Minto than in India. The incident could not well have been timed with more ingenuity. The Council Act was about to operate and amnesty was confidentially anticipated in relation to certain political prisoners, more especially in the cases of nine Bengalese deported without trial. These deportations were the principal cause of persistent bitterness whereon the terrorists worked. Viscount Morley had abundant evidence that two or three of the deported would strongly oppose the Act with violence, The most effective blow at terrorism would be to release all untried prisoners. f The "Standard" says that Ahmedabad was the birthplace of Dr Lahaca, whom Dhingra fatally wounded at the time he shot Sir Curzon Wyllie dead, and the inhabitants had publicly expressed their horror of Dhingra's crime. The "Telegraph" says that Ah medabad has tne reputation of being a prosperous, contented and loyal city. "The Times" states that the bomb struck the jemadar's wrist.