INDIAN UNREST.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VI, Issue 1628, 3 May 1919, Page 9 (Supplement)

INDIAN UNREST.

POSITION BETTER.

Bu Cable — Preti Aisoefation — Copyright. (A. & N.Z. & Router) LONDON, Apr. 30. The Press Bureau has issued -ihe Viceroy's report to April 28, as follows: ; In the Punjab live rioters were killed and 12 arrested in connection with the recent riot at Ghuharkama. Mobs burned the Sanghirhill and damaged the Kaithal-Gujerat railway stations. Wire-cutting continues in several districts, otherwise all is quiet. Matters are also, quiet at Amritsar, Lahore, and on the northwest frontier. Peshawar reports that the movement is essentially Hindu.

At Delhi the position is quiet, but it is. reported that the Delhi merchants are exercising pressure on merchants elsewhere by refusing to honour their money remittances, and emissaries from Delhi are stirring up trouble in the Punjab. ' Bombay is quiet. Their leaders, so far,.have .restrained the Moslems, in spite of the strong feeling regarding Turkey and cognate questions. Inflammatory; notices addressed to the troops have been posted up in, Meerut.

RIOTERS PUNISHED. (A. & N.Z.) LONDON, Mny 2. Sixteen persons implicated in the Punjab riots have been sentenced to imprisonment or transportation, varying from life sentences to seven months. In the North-Western State the damage done to the railways during the riots is estimated at £IOO,OOO.