HID BEHIND SKIRTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1005, 23 June 1930, Page 9

HID BEHIND SKIRTS

COWARDS’ REFUGE IN INDIAN STRIFE ANARCHICAL MOVE GROWS Reed. 9.5 a.m. DELHI, Sunday. Over 500 persons were injured in a three-hours’ battle at Bombay yesterday between the mounted and foot police and Congress volunteers, who massed in the vicinity of the esplanade Maidan, a large open space in the centre of the city, in contravention to the magistrate’s order banning a rally there. Five hundred police, armed with lathis, or long bamboo poles, repeatedly charged the crowd, which numbered 15,000. Early in the morning, in defiance of the police orders, the Congress workers, the “National Militia,” and other Nationalist organisations, assembled at the maidan (parade ground) for inspection by Pandit Motilal Nehru, president of the National Congress, and the police had a most difficult task in dispersing Sikh volunteers, as they sheltered behind women Nationalists. Trade in Bombay is completely at a standstill, which has caused dismay to many Indian merchants, who countenanced the Congress campaign, and calculated on making a profit from the boycott of British goods. European and Indian business interests, while averse to the declaration of martial law, are urging the necessity for the reassertion of authority. The growth of the anarchical movement in several centres throughout India is evidenced by further bomb outrages yesterday at Barisal, in Bengal, and at New Delhi. VOICE OF INDIA LONDON, Saturday. In the course of a speech at Coventry, Mr. K. C. Roy, a member of the Indian delegation to the Imperial Press Conference, said India, despite financial strain and other difficulties, had prepared airdromes and other facilities for the Britain-Australia air mail service, in which India was an important link. India had done this because she was grateful for the excellent treatment of, and full rights accorded to, Indians in Australia. India wanted a Government responsible to and removable by an Indian Parliament.