CALCUTTA RIOTS

Hawera Star, Volume L, 17 April 1930, Page 7

CALCUTTA RIOTS

FIFTY PERSONS INJURED j HARTAL THROUGHOUT INDIA FOREIGN: CLOTH BURNED. I bailee Breda Association— B> Electric leicgrapu oupyiigut.i CALCUTTA, April 16. Additional details of yesterday’s . riotino- show that tramcars were stoned at Bliowanipore. Nine persons wero injured, incline! ng ct woman, wlio is in a grave condition. .S , eveial cais were wrecked. The police arrested 30 and discovered dumps of stones hidden on house tops. Fifty persons, including lo British police sergeants and Indian constables and 11 firemen, were injured in the rioting in Calcutta yesterday. Two (Sikhs were taken to hospital sufteiing from bullet wounds. . . Miss Anna Dench, a British girl who was pulled from a motor cycle and stoned, was rescued by British police while being dragged away by Sikhs. Armed police cleared the streets, using bayonets, while the fire brigade manned hoses. Many roads were blocked by dismantled cars, and fanatical students held up trams by lying on the rails. A hartal was celebrated throughout India yesterday. Students absented themselves from schools and colleges and foreign cloth was publicly burned.

“NOTHING SAINTLY ABOUT GANDHI.” CANADIAN GOVERNOR SPEAKS. VANCOUVER., April 15. “Gandhi poses as a saint, but there is nothing saintlv about persuading his followers to break the law,” declared Viscount Willingdon, GovernorGeneral of Canada, addressing local service clubs. He said he was in India six years ago when Gandhi tried the same thing. He wished ho were not Governor-General so that lie might say what he thought about, the Gandhi movement and the Snowden Budget. He hoped to return some time, when he would be able to speak his mind more freely.