INDIAN UNREST

Southland Times, Issue 19124, 17 December 1923, Page 5

INDIAN UNREST

AKALI GANG DISPERSED. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.— Copyright.) (Reuter's Telegrams.) DELHI, Oecember 13. A force of cavalry rounded up the three remaining leaders of the anarchial Akali tribesmen in Jullunder. They shot two, after considerable armed resistance, but the third escaped in the darkness. The gang has now been completely broken up. The revolutionary movement of the Babhir Akalis in the Jullunder and Hoshiarpur districts has assumed disquieting proportions, reported the Indian correspondent of the Daily Telegraph recently. Troops are being despatched to the affected area. The leaders of the movement are ex-sol-diers and returned emigrants. The districts contain a large body of the latter. Many of them have never abandoned the revolutionary intentions with which they returned to India eight years ago, and they furnish recruits for the movement. The leaders have launched a campaign of murder, so as to intimidate persons who are loyal to the Government and, therefore, a source of danger to the members of the band. A gang has moved freely in the districts of Hoshiarpur and Jullunder, receiving shelter and assistance, openly discussing murders committed, planning further murders, and enlisting recruits. These murders have created a feeling of terror among the loyalists throughout the districts, who are panicstricken at the knowledge that the murder gang is assisted by the large numbers it has enrolled to collect information and harbour actual murderers.