BOMBS FLUNG AT CAR

Hawera Star, Volume L, 26 August 1930, Page 5

BOMBS FLUNG AT CAR

ASSAILANT FATALLY INJURED DEMONSTRATION AT CALCUTTA POLICE COMMISSIONED. ATTACKED (United Prvne Afißociaclon —By Eiectne IV.^iriiipl: Copyright.) DELHI, Aug. 25. Bombs were hung at the car of Sir Charles Tegart, Police Commissioner, as he was driving in Dalhousie Square, the centre of the European business quarter of Calcutta, at 11 o’clock this morning. Sir Charles was not hurt, but his driver was wounded. A .second assailant was killed, apparently by the premature bursting ot a. bomb in his hand. Sir Charles leapt from his car and chased one assailant, who subsequently was arrested. The assailant was carrying two other bombs. There are believed to be four assailants. Dalhousie Square is the busiest shopping centre of Calcutta. The four assailants were of the Bengali student class, about 25 years old. One is dead, one is wounded and perhaps dead, and the other tw’o were arrested. The iucilent is-causing great excitement among Europeans and little business is doing. BREACHES OF FOREST LAWS. A serious situation is reported in the Betul district. Central Provinces, where the police, attempting to arrest a member of a practically aboriginal tribe called the Gonds, for a breach of the forest laws, found their man surrounded by several hundred Gonds. Several police were injured, but the police, fired, temporarily dispersing the Gonds, of whom one was killed. The Gonds are reassembling in large numbers. Fifty armed police have been, despatched from Nagpur. It is noteworthy that the activity of Congress agitators in the. Central Provinces has taken the special form of encouraging breaches of the forest laws.