LAWLESSNESS IN INDIA

Hawera Star, Volume L, 16 February 1931, Page 9

LAWLESSNESS IN INDIA

TROOPS CONTROL BENARES MANY INJURED IN RIOTING ATTACK ON CROP GUARDS. (United Press Association —By Electrio Telegraph Copyright.; Received 12.30 p.m. to-day. DELHI, Fob. 15. Ponding the result of Gandhi's conference with the Viceroy trouble continues in Benares, where British troops were in occupation of the main streets all day yesterday. Students who attempted to obstruct the police at Durkakund were dispersed by a baton charge. The casualties as a result of the faction fights yesterday consisted of three killed and 51 injured. In Jambusear, a town in the Broach district of the Bombay Presidency, rioters killed one and injured two Government employees who were guarding crops.

SKIP A R ATI ON I STS UN POPULAR] PLOT FOR ASSISTANCE Received 12.30 p.m. to-day. CALCUTTA, Feb. 15. The Burma. Government discovered a plot to assassinate all Ministers and others who have advocated the separation qf Burma from India. The revelation was made in the Legislative Council by a home member who declared that the plot had been hatched by the Bengal revolutionary party in the province. The wife of Mr U Ba Pe, the’ leader of the Burmese delegation to the roundtable conference, received warnings from 30 different sources that her husband would be shot on his arrival from London.