SOLDIERS’ REPRISALS
ONE SENTENCED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT. OTHERS RECEIVE HARD LABOUR. (Received 9.30 a.m.) CALCUTTA, October 2. A message from Jubbelpore states that Private James Dowdall was sentensed to penal servitude of life, and nine others to imprisonment with hard labour, for participation in a raid on the village on July 24. The trial, in which 23 men of the First Battalion of the King’s Liverpooi Regiment were concerned, arose out of an attack by the soldiers, armed with sticks, upon a village, the result of which 13 natives were injured, one of whom died. The attack was in the nature of a reprisal against villagers of Karodi, who had roughly handled a soldier who had frightened some women. The men, however, raided a neighbouring village by mistake.
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Northern Advocate, 21 October 1935, Page 5
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128SOLDIERS’ REPRISALS Northern Advocate, 21 October 1935, Page 5
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