AFFAIRS IN INDIA
A BENGAL PROTEST.
GOVERNMENTS DEFENCE. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association). DELHI, January 27. Despite the Government’s opposition the Bengal Legislature carried by sixty-six to forty-five a Swarajist resolution urging the release of seventeen men who have been detained without trial. The supporters of the motion criticised the Government’s action in interning men without trial, and with failing to submit to cross-examina-tion the evidence against them. It was maintained that a conspiracy was provoked, and that the ordinary Government law was pot available. The Government knew that the revolutionaries were establishing centres in various parts of the province in the guise of philantropic organisations. Some of the leaders were in touch with the agents of the Moscow Third Internationale which supplied money and arms. The revolutionaries possessed weapons and considerable ammunition, which were not procurable in India, and last year the existence of a definite plot to assassinate police officers'was discovered. The Government considered that its action was imperative.
Mr Day was shot by a Bengalee in mistake for a high official.
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Southland Times, Issue 19157, 29 January 1924, Page 7
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