TROOPS ROUT OUT REBELS

Taranaki Daily News, 26 April 1930, Page 9

TROOPS ROUT OUT REBELS

13 KILLED AT CHITTAGONG

SUSPECTS SHOOT POLICE

Delhi, April 23.

Thirteen rebels who were involved in the attack on the police and railway armouries at Chittagong were killed and many wounded in a running fight with a military search party. The troops first encountered 30 rebels four miles from Chittagong and surrounded them, killing seven. The remainder retreated through dense jungle where they were again surrounded but manag d to escape to the hills pursued by troops armed with machine guns. Another fierce fight ensued in which five rebels were killed. There were no casualties among the troops, who are still pursuing the insurgents.

Several arrests have been made at Chittagong, where the citizens are asked not to walk through the main streets after nine at night. While four men who were arrested in a train at Feni, eastern Bengal, on suspicion of complicity. in the Chittagong outrage were being searched in the stationmaster’s office, they drew revolvers and shot at and wounded an inspector of police, two constables, a ticket collector and the village policeman. They then escaped. Sixteen, including a number of students, were arrested at Feni. Twelve rioters are reported killed by rifle and machine 3 gun fire at Peshawar. Deputy-Commissioner Metcalf and as-sistant-Police Superintendent Carroll were seriously injured during a street battle.

When order had been restored the 'British troops were replaced by an Indian detachment and armoured cars were withdrawn. The agitators whose arrest caused the riot have been lodged in the Peshawar fort.