INDIAN UNREST

Southland Times, Issue 18078, 3 May 1919, Page 5

INDIAN UNREST

DELHI MERCHANTS STIRRING UP TROUBLE. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn. & Reuter’s.) LONDON, April 30. Received May 2; 8.45 p.m. The Press Bureau has issued the Viceroy of India’s report to April 28. It states that in the Punjab five rioters were killed and twelve were arrested in connection with the recent riot at Ghuharkama. Mobs burned Sanghirhill and damaged the Kaithal and Gujerat railway stations. Wire cutting continues in several districts, otherwise all is quiet. There is also quietness at Amritsar, Lahore and the North-west frontier. The province of Peshawar reports that the movement is essentially Hindu. At Delhi the position is quiet, but it is reported that the Delhi merchants are exercising pressure on merchants elsewhere by refusing to honour their money remittances and emissaries from Delhi are stirring up trouble in the Punjab. Bombay is quiet. Their leaders so far have restrained the Moslems, despite strong feeling regarding Turkey and cognate questions. Inflammatory notices addressed to the troops have been posted in Meerut. AGITATORS SENTENCED. LONDON, May 2. Received May 3, 12.45 a.m. Sixteen persons implicated in the Punjab riots were sentenced to imprisonment and transportation varying from life sentences to seven months. In the north-western States the damage to the railways during the riots was £IOO,OOO.