UNREST IN INDIA.

Otago Witness, Issue 2915, 26 January 1910, Page 23

UNREST IN INDIA.

LONDON, January 18. Reuter's Calcutta correspondent reports that a sensation was caused by the arrest of 10 men belonging to the Tenth Jats Native Infantry Regiment, stationed at Calcutta, on a charge connected with sedition. They are imprisoned in separate cells. It is expected that the regiment will be transferred. It i* understood that very few are affected, though it has been

ascertained that direct efforts have been made to tamper with tfhe fidelity of tba men. Surendranath Banarjee.. the well-known journalist, has called a meeting at Barrackpore to devise means to prevent bomb outrages on the railways in India. January 23. In the course of a letter to 20 ruling Princes Lord Minto asks for their cooperation against seditions doctrines, and urges that each State should work out its own policy against the present nefarious agitation. All of them replied promising their, utmost assistance to stamp iut sedition. Several of them recommend a more stringent press law. CALCUTTA, January 18. A seditious drama which is being played in the native theatres of the Deccan portrays the murder of an oppressive king v/ho allegorically is intended for Lord Curzon. Numbers of copies of tha text of the drama have been circulated. Many appeals have been made to th« Government to suppress seditious literature and seditious native newspapers. January 19. Only 10 natives are charged with bringing sedition into the regimental line. The loyalty of the regiment as a whole is undoubted.