INDIAN DISORDER

Hokitika Guardian, 25 January 1932, Page 6

INDIAN DISORDER

ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTED. POLICEMAN BEATEN SENSELESS [United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] (Recehad this day at 10.15 a.m.) CALCUTTA, Jan. 22,

An attempt to assassinate H. Quiton, district magistrate at Hawarth, a Calcutta suburb, was made when a bomb was thrown in his private saloon on a train. The carriage was damaged but Quinton was unhurt. No arrests were made.

Police Sergeant Bourne was beaten senseless with iron rods by suspected terrorists. He was taken to a hospital in a precarious condition. The Bombay Government lias ordered the forfeiture of over £3OOO lying in two Indian banks to the credit of four prominent Congressmen, as the Government is satisfied the funds were-intended for the purposes of the Bombay Congress Committee. CONGRESS FLAC BANNED. MORE DISORDER REPORTED. CALCUTTA, Jan. 23 The tri-coloured flag ol the Indian National Congress, which lias floated over the Calcutta Corporation buildings for over four years, thereby arotis ing fierce resentment on the part of Britishers there at the supine attitude of the Government, will no longer be seen henceforth, as the Government has now forbidden it. Police Superintendent B. J. Shooter, who was transferred 'from Chittagong to Calcutta, following on a Government inquiry into the Hindu-Moslem riots at Chittagong last year, has bee,, found shot dead at the United Service Club, with a revolver by his side. A'young revolutionary, believed to be named"Vaslipal, has been arrested at Allahbad m a house occupied by a European Woman Theaoplnst, who married an Indian. When the door was opened to admit a police party, a revolutionary suspect fired six shots, but the police were not injured. The man and woman were also arrested. A large quantity of arms and annminj cion was seized.