INDIAN LIBEL SUIT.
FLOGGING OF NATIVES
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Sir Michael O'Dwyer, ex-Governor-Oeneral. of Punjab, cross-examined in the libel case, gave evidence that 258 natives were, flogged in connection with the disturbances at Amritsar. Men were tied to a frame and whipped with a bamboo or cane, which was mild compared with the cat. Sometimes natives asked to be caned instead of fined.
Replying to a. question whether natives were flogged because they failed to salaam to an officer Sir M. O'Dwyer replied : "A rumor was flying round the country that British rule had disappeared. One way to disprove this was to require the people to show /traditional forms of respect, I disapproved of the salaaming order."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16425, 8 May 1924, Page 5
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