The Indian Rising.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 19, 6 January 1920, Page 6

The Indian Rising.

WIDESPREAD NATURE. DISCLOSED BY COMMISSION. BRITISH RULE ENDANGERED. {By Cable —Press Association.—Copyright.' dieceived 6, 3.5 p.m.) London, Jan. j. Bombay telegrams report that the widespread nature of the Indian risings is disclosed in lhe latest evidence before the Hunvi Commission. AU classes at Kasur. r.n aggregation of fortified hamlets thirty miles southward from Lahore attacked the British shouting: "English rule is ended." They beat two English soldiers to death. Forty lenders of the uprising wete given eighteen strokes and gallows were erected in a public place but not used. Mobs at Jujranwala. forty miles northward of Lahore, burned the railwav station and bridges.

j Aeroplanes bombed and machine gtinned the town and neighbouring villages !• r two days, setting fire to various buildings. Similar outbreaks are described at fourteen places. the natives always beginning with the destruction of the railway upon which the frontier armies are depending. The, military used an armoured train which machine-gunned various villages. The traffic manager of the Northwestern railwav stated the system was paralysed for twenty days. British rule was seriously endangered. —(Times.)