GROWTH OF ANARCHY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20598, 24 June 1930, Page 9

GROWTH OF ANARCHY.

AGITATORS IN INDIA.

BOMBAY STREET BATTLE.

ii OVER 500 CASUALTIES.

TRADE AT STANDSTILL. MORE BOMB OUTRAGES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. DELHI, June 22. Moro than 500 combatants wero injured in a three hours' battlo at Bombay yesterday between mounted and foot polico and Indian National Congress volunteers. Tho latter massed in the , vicinity of tho Esplanado Maidan, a large open space in tho centre of tho city, in contravention of a magistrate's order banning tho holding of a rally thore. Fivo hundred polico armed with lathis—long bamboo poles—repeatedly charged tho crowd, which numbered 15,000. Early in iho morning, in defianco of tho magistrate's order, Congress workers, members of tho "national militia" and of other Nationalist organisations, assembled for inspection by Pandit Motilal Nehru, president of the Congress. > Tho police had a most difficult task in dispersing Sikh volunteers as they sheltered behind women Nationalists. Trade in Bombay was brought to a complete standstill, causing dismay to many Indian merchants who had countenanced tho Congress volunteers' campaign and calculated on making a profit from tho boycott of British goods,, European and Indian business interests nro averso to a declaration of martial law, but they aro urging the necessity for a reassertion of authority. The growth of the anarchical movement in several centres throughout India was evidenced by further bomb outrages committed yesterday at Barisal, in Bengal, and at Delhi.