VIOLENCE CRUSADE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1024, 15 July 1930, Page 9

VIOLENCE CRUSADE

POLICE ATTACKED BY MOBS IN INDIA SITUATION QUIETER British Official Wireless Reed. Noon. RUGBY, Monday. The Government o£ India’s appreciation of the situation up to Saturday last was circulated to members of the House of Commons today . In the North-west Frontier Province a recrudescence of hostile activity is recorded in South Waziristan, in the upper Shaktu area, beginning on July G, when several hostile leaders joined forces in attacks on scouts’ posts around Bararogha. On the evening of July 8 a concerted attack failed and a gun belonging to Sadde Khan, one of the hostile leaders, was put out of action. An attack on July 9 was repulsed with considerable loss. The retiring rebels captured certain Khassadar posts, but on the advent of tho Razmak aelumn on July 10 they withdrew toward Haidan. A noticeable feature of the operation has been the co-operation on the part of friendly sections and the loyalty of Khassadars. Continuous air action has been maintained against Lashkars, and the areas which supplied them. EXPLOSION IN PESHAWAR A statement summarising the incidents records that on July 8 a slight explosion occurred in Peshawar City outside the House of the Honorary Magistrate, but very little damage was done. In other parts of India the civil disobedience movement pursues its course with increased activity in some places and a lull in others. On the whole, however, recent indications of a decline have been maintained. It is reported that in Bengal as a whole the civil disobedience movement is on the decrease, hut the tendency toward violence is increasing and there are signs that the terrorist party may become more active. The Madras Presidency also reports a definite slackening in the movement, due, however, more to a vigorous action by the authorities than to voluntary abandonment by its adherents. POLICE CHARGE CROWD Similar improvement is manifested in other provinces, except in Bombay and the Central Provinces. Conflicts have occurred between the authorities and the public, the most serious of which occurred on July 11 in Bombay, when the Congress volunteers persisted in their attempts to hold a procession and meeting in honour of tho Garhwali soldiers who had been convicted of mutiny, and the police had to make several charges before the intention was abandoned. There was a collision during the week between the police and the crowd in Poona, and owing to its aggressive attitude, the crowd had to be dispersed by force in Gujerat, on the other hand, there are signs of improvement and in several districts the village officers who have been persuaded or coerced to resign their offices, are withdrawing their resignations in considerable numbers. In the Central Provinces an organised movement has been started tc defy the forest laws. While the movement remains in principle nonviolent, the incidents which are continually occurring show that, the rank and file, especially in the rural areas, cannot be restrained from acts of violence, which commonly take the form of attacks on small parties of police. KILLING AND LOOTING OUTBREAKS IN BENGAL DELHI, Monday. An outbreak of disorder occurred in the Wymensingh area of Eastern Bengal resulting in nine Hindus being killed in a series of communal clashes between Hindus and Moslems. Extensive looting took place. The police fired upon several gangs of hooligans who were utterly desperate. Fifty additional armed policemen have been sent from Dacca.