INDIAN TERRORISTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14220, 17 November 1909, Page 7

INDIAN TERRORISTS.

THE AHMEDABAD OUTRAGE. ———. TIMED WITH SINISTER; INGENUITY. By Telegraph.—Press Association.— London, November 15. The Daily News says that nowhere will public indignation be more genuine over the attempt to assassinate the Earl of Minto than in India. ' The incident, the News remarks, could not well have been timed with more sinister ingenuity.- The Provincial .Council's Act was about to operate, and an amnesty was confidently anticipated in relation to certain political prisoners, more especially in the case of nine Bengalis deported without trial.

These deportations were the principal cause of the persistent bitterness upon which the terrorists worked. Viscount Morley (Secretary of State for India) had abundant evidence that two or three of the deported men would strongly oppose acts of violence. The most effective blow at terrorism would be to release the untried prisoners. The Standard says Ahmedabad, where the attempted assassination took place, was the birthplace of Dr. Lalcaca, whom Dhingra fatally wounded at the time he shot Sir William Curzon Wyllie dead, and the inhabitants had publicly expressed their horror of Dhingra's crime. - The Daily Telegraph says that; Ahmedabad has the .reputation of being a prosperous, contented, and loyal city. • "'

The Times states that the. bomb struck the wrist of the Viceroy's jemadar, not the umbrella which he was holding over the head of Lady \ Minto. - . ■■ ■ -I ■