WELCOME BY RIOT

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1074, 11 September 1930, Page 9

WELCOME BY RIOT

MISS MADELINE SLADE RETURNS OUTBREAK AT CALCUTTA DELHI, Wednesday. A frustrated attempt to organise a procession for a reception to Miss Madeline Slade (Mira Bei), daughter of Admiral Slade, who is an ardent disciple of Gandhi, led to rioting in the Indian quarter of Calcutta last night Three police officers were injured by stones flung by students from the university hostel. The police charged the crowds and cleared the streets. Military experts have put forward a

proposal for a large-scale expedition to subdue and bring under permanent control the insurgent tribes on the north-west frontier, hut financial difficulties stand in the way of the scheme. The opinion is expressed that the unrest among the Afridis lias not subsided. The Army authorities argue that a concerted attempt to subdue the region once for all would prove less costly in the long run than continual vigilance and the suppression of outbursts and would make possible a reduction of the frontier forces. The Viceroy’s Executive Council has carefully considered the matter, but the fact that the proposed movement would cost at least £23.000,000 would appear, in view of the present financial stringency, to put it out of the question.