POLICE STONED
INDIAN DISTURBANCES MORE BOMBINGS THREATENED DELHI. Nov. <i. There were disturbances at Karachi when the police were arresting men picketing liquor shops. The police were stoned by a crowd of 3000. They then charged with batons and many rioters were' injured. “Gandhi Day” was celebrated throughout the city. Shops were closed and schools picketed. A boy attempting to hoist the Nationalist tlag above the Legislative Council chambers was arrested and the flag confiscated.
The police surrounded a house a mile outside Lahore and three men ran out firing revolvers. The police retaliated,' killing one and injuring another. The one killed has been identified;as a student suspected of lining concerned in an attempt to wreck the Viceroy’s train last year.
The Police Commissioner at Karachi and two sub-inspectors have been warned to leave the city within a week, otherwise they will be killed bv bombs.
Tho police diseovoml :i bomb fnotory with 500 bombs, baskets of chemicals and pistols in tho house o'i Kapurohaud Jain, in Dollii. Four arrests have been made. The police lound in .Tain’s ])ossession a copy of a pledge enjoining members of the eonspiracy to shoot none but policemen. . Jain also possessed a list of the police all over India.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19301107.2.67
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17410, 7 November 1930, Page 7
Word Count
205POLICE STONED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17410, 7 November 1930, Page 7
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in