CORRUPTING INDIAN TROOPS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 March 1927, Page 6

CORRUPTING INDIAN TROOPS.

ARRESTS EFFECTED AT SHANGHAI (Received Friday, 5.5 p.m.) PEIUN. March 17. An attempt to create dissatisfaction among the Indian troops stationed at Shanghai was discovered by the military police to-day, who arrested three Indian agitators in the military camp at Yangtze-poo. One who is notorious locally for his anti-British activities is the head of the Sikh-Malva faction, and was recently sentenced for sedition in India When arrested all were in possession of handbills and literature violently anti-BHtish inging the troops to refuse to interfere with the Chinese who arc striving for the same object as India —for the overthrow of the British yoke.

The authorities have known of their activities for some time but have been unable '.o arrest the leader until to day.

There was a violent scene in court when the leader declared tliat India j would soon follow China's .ead and emancipate the people by worldrevolution. TERRORISTS TVRTTTALLY MURDER WOMAN. SHOT -AND STATTOTTO TO DEATH IN BED. (Received Friday, 10.50 p.m.) • SHANGHAI. March 17. The most brutal murder yet. committed in the Settlement by the Terrorists was perpetrated to-day. They visited the house of a tramway inspector who had departed for work. They forced their way into his wife's bedroom, and shot and stabbed her to death in bed. Th." inspector had refused to join the strike. \ yviiyrv " < x ■' • A W"li;„„' n „ m; ,n •,< ~ SJylM' V :.'-.,'" wnv 'Mimi'ine ''■■'■in f''<-' ••"■I ni-<--'\i\'' <•"•■ ]tot':tw.n no - - bunds, f:!"" .inrl nri'.k.*