INDIAN AFFAIRS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1717, 7 January 1920, Page 5

INDIAN AFFAIRS.

SERIOUS RISINGS RECORDED.

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyrigbt. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. LONDON, Jan. 5. Bombay telegrams report that the widespread nature of the Indian risings is dis* closed in the latest evidence given before the Hunter Commission. All classes at Kasur, an 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 leaders of the uprising were given 18 strokes. Gallows were erected in a public place, but were noit used. • _ Mobs at Gujrgnwala, forty miles northward of Lahore, burned the railway station and bridges. Aeroplanes bombed and machine-gunned the town and the neighbouring villages for two days, sotting' fire to various buildings. Similar outbreaks were described at fourteen places, the Natives always beginning with the destruction of the railway upon which tho frontier armies are depending. The military used an armoured train which machine-gunned various villages. The traffic manager of the north-western railway stated that tho system _ was paralysed for twenty days and British rule seriously endangered.