INDIAN UNREST

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17826, 7 January 1920, Page 5

INDIAN UNREST

WIDESPREAD NATURE OF RISINGS. BRITISH RULE ENDANGERED. Px«m Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 5. Bombay telegrams report tl» widespread nature of the Indian risings as disclosed in the latest evidence before the Hunter Commission. All classes at Kasur, in aggregation of fortified hamlets 30 miles southward from Lahore, attacked tJjo British, shotting: "English rule is ended." They beat two British soldiers to death. Forty leaders of the uprising were given 18 strokes. Gallows were erected the public place, but not used. The mobs at Gujlanwala, 40 miles northwards of La hore, burnt the railway station, and British aeroplanes bombed and machinegunned the town and neighbouring ■villages for two days, setting fire to various buildings. Similar outbreaks occurred at 14 places, the natives always beginning with the destruction of the railways upon which the north-west "frontier armies are depending. The military used an armoured train, which machine-gunned various villages. The traffic manager on the North-western railway states that the system was paralysed for 20 days, ani British rule was seriously endangered.— A. and N.Z. Cable.