INDIAN CONGRESS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21539, 11 January 1932, Page 7

INDIAN CONGRESS

DIFFICULTIES INCREASING GOVERNMENT NET CLOSING IN (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) DELHI, January 0. (Received Jan. 10, at 5.5 p.m.) The arrest of Congress men in India continues on an increasing scale, and the organisation is finding acute difficulty in securing leaders to replace those who have been arrested. Reports from every centre indicate a sharp rally to the Government’s side, and there is an optimistic feeling among traders over the Government’s assurance that tyrannical Congress interference with dealers in British goods will not he tolerated. NOTORIOUS “RED” SENTENCED. DELHI, January 10. (Received Jan. 10, at 8 p.m.) M. N. Roy, a notorious Indian revolutionary and Communist, was sentenced at Cawnpore to 12 years’ transportation for waging war against the King. Roy, who has been “ wanted ” since 1924 for planning a rebellion and the establishment of a Socialist Proletariat in India, was arrested at Bombay in July of last year. He was formerly a member of the Moscow International, and was responsible for the direction of the centra] Communist agitation propaganda in India, but was expelled as a renegade. Dr Ansari, the third Congress president who has been arrested since the Government ban was placed on this organisation, was sentenced to six months’ simple imprisonment.