CONDITIONS IN INDIA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19069, 15 January 1924, Page 7

CONDITIONS IN INDIA

MR GANDHI’S HEALTH. OPERATION FOR APPENDICITIS. Free* Association —3y Telegraph—Copyright DELHI, January 13. Mr Gandhi (the Non-Co-operation leader), who is at present undergoing sentence in Yerronda Gaol, is reported to be suffering from fever. He was sent to hospital for examination. An operation is contemplated. A later message states that Mr Gandhi was removed to hospital at Poona, whore he underwent an operation for appendicitis.—Renter. FATAL SHOOTING AFFRAY. BENGALEE RUNS AMOK. DELHI, January 13. A shooting affray occurred at Calcutta An armed Bangalee apparently ran amok. He shot a European, Mr Ernest Day, employed by the Kilburn Company, seven times. Ho fired at a pursuing taxicab, and the driver was seriously wounded. After running about a quarter of a mile, firing indiscriminately, he ordered the driver of a private car to take him up. On the driver refusing the Bengalee tired at him, slightly wounding him. The man was subsequently seized by a European, and was secured by the police. The assailant carried a pistol and a revolver. Mr Day later succumbed to his injuries. 'lhe taxi driver was sent to hospital. nis condition is serious. Investigations suggest that Mr Day was shot in mistake for a high police officer. —Reuter. DETAILS OF THE MURDER. LIGHT ON REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITIES. DELHI, January 13 Mr Day’s assailant has been identified as a Bengalee, aged about,, 20, an inhabitant of Serampore, a suburb of Calcutta. He threw up his studies two years ago iff order to join the Non-Co-operation movement. The police raided his house at Serampore and seized certain documehts. They also searched the Congress office, and a few other buildings in Calcutta, and two arrests were made. There is the strongest evidence that the outrage was committed by a prominent member of the Bengal revolutionary party. The cartridges used were of the Continental type and are not purchasable in India. They are the same ate those which were used in the murder of the Calcutta subpostmaster in August last. —Reuter. PARTY OF SCOUTS AMBUSHED. SIX DEATHS RESULT. DELHI, January 13. A party of South Waziristan ' Scouts who were engaged in road protection duty near Kotlrai were ambushed on January 10 by Mahsuds. Five Scouts and one Mahsud were killed. —Router.