FALSE FRIENDS
INDIA’S WORST ENEMIES
PEOPLE LED ASTRA?/.
MORASS OF INDEPENDENCE.
(United Service.),'
(Received 8.40 a.m.) DELHI, December 18,
The Viceroy, in a speech at the annual dinner of the European Association, said that the most bitter ami the most confirmed reactionary would never be able to inflict onetenth of the damage to India’s cause that India was likely ( to suffer at the hands of her false friends who would guide her towards the morass of.■independence. The’demand for independence must do irreparable injury to India’s cause and sadden the hearts of wiser India’s sons and friends.
SHOCKING INSTANCE.
TWO BRUTAL MURDERS,
PERPETRATED BY 'STUDENTS.
(Australian Press Association.) (Received 8.30 a.m.) December 18
Mr J. P. Saunders, European Assistant of Police at Lahore, was brutally murdered while leaving his office last night.
Two Indian students fired five shots at hi'm and then killed an Indian cleric who attempted their arrest. The assailants disappeared into a near-by Hindu College and escaped by another entrance.
It is believed that the crime was revenge for the death of Lai Lajpat Bai, Punjab Nationalist leader, which occurred exactly a month ago, after a clash with police during the boycott demonstration against the Simon Commission.
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Northern Advocate, 19 December 1928, Page 5
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