OUTRAGE IN INDIA

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21344, 19 November 1932, Page 11

OUTRAGE IN INDIA

ATTACK ON AN EDITOR GUILTY PARTIES PUNISHED CALCUTTA. Nov. 17 Sunil Kumar Cliatterjce has been sentenced to transportation for life, l'romode Ranjan Bose to 10 years' imprisonment with hard labour, Amar Chandra Ghose to two years' with hard labour, and ihe other accused, Dutt, Das and Bakshi, have been acquitted by a special tribunal on charges in connection with the recent attempt to murder Sir Alfred Watson, editor of the Statesman.

Sir Alfred Watson was shot and wounded by terrorists on the evening of September 28, w.nile he was driving in a car around the Maidan, a big open spaco in the European quarter of Calcutta. His assailants opened fire from a car which drew alongside Sir Alfred's car at a lonely part. Sir Alfred was injured in both shoulders. His secretary, Mrs. Grose, was injured in one hand, and a Sikh driver was wounded in the* right shoulder. The assa'lants escaped in their car. which was without lights and could not be identified. Later it was reported that two of the would-be murderers had drunk poison and died when they found that the police were hot on their heels in an out Iving suburb. " A further threat to Sir Alfred was contained in a leaflet found on the body of a Bengali terrorist on October 1. 1 his leaflet stated that in no- circumstances would Sir Alfred be. allowed by the terrorists to take his seat in the new office of the Statesman to be occupied in November.