UNREST IN INDIA.
CALCUTTA, January 12. The trial is proceeding at Lahore of an ex-deportee named Ajitsingh, who is still at large, and of others on a charge of publishing seditious literature. The prosecution showed that Ajitsingh is connected with the publication of a book givingdirections how to take life and to destroy buildings. They produced letters from a well-known agitator to Darmanand, who is a student at India House (London), and at present engaged in, London in raising funds for Ajitsingh’s India campaign, LONDON, January 14. Reuter’s Calcutta correspondent reports that, owing to the further revelations of sedition disclosed 1 at the recent trials, it is expected that the Press Act, which strengthens the act of 1907 in the direction of preventing seditious meetings, will now be extended to Madras, Bombay, Bengal, the Punjab, and the Central and United Provinces.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2914, 19 January 1910, Page 25
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