UNREST IN INDIA
SITUATION GENERALLY QUIETER.
(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)
LONDON, April 30,
The Press Bureau has issued the Viceroy’s report to April 28th, It states that in the Punjab five rioters were killed. Twelve were arrested in connection with the recent riot at harkama. Mobs burned Sanghirhill and damaged Kaithal and Gujerat railway stations. Wire cutting, continues in several districts. Otherwise all is quiet. ~ t :
Quiet also prevails at Amritsar, Lahore, and on the North-West Frontier. The province of Peshawar reports that the movement is .-essentially, .Hindu. , At Delhi the position is quiet, but,it is rerjpried that Delhi merchants are exercising pressure on merchants else ■ where by refusing to honour their money remittances, and emissaries,‘froja Delhi are stirring up trouble in the Punjab, , * • . Bombay is quiet. There'the leaders have so far restrained the Moslems, despite strong feelings regarding Turkey and cognate questions. Inflammatory notices addressed to the troops have been posted in Meerut. RIOTERS SENTENCED. v (Australian & N;Z. Gable Association.) May 2: Sixteen persons' implicated in the‘Punjab riots were seirteUoed -to imprisonment or transportation varying; from life sentence* to seven months. 1 .
In the north-western State the damage to the railway* during the riots is estimtted at £IOO,OOO.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 104, 3 May 1919, Page 5
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