WAR AGAINST THE KING

Stratford Evening Post, Volume III, Issue 349, 2 May 1935, Page 5

WAR AGAINST THE KING

INDIANS’ DEEP-LAID PLOT

TRIAL LASTING TWO YEARS CONCLUDED

Press Association —Copyright

Calcutta, May 1

After a trial lasting nearly two years, in which 500 witnesses were examined, 31 men were convicted by a special tribunal at Calcutta on a charge of conspiracy to wage war against the King. Six were sentenced to transportation for life, three to ten years’ imprisonment, nine to seven years’ imprisonment and the remainder to from six years’ to one year’s imprisonment.

Four men were acquitted, but two were immediately re-arrested under the Criminal Law Amendment Act, while two who turned King’s evidence were pardoned.

The conspiracy was described as a plan to promote simultaneous armed risings throughout India and Burma, to facilitate which men were recruited and arms, explosives and funds obtained through widespread dacoities, robberies and murders.