PLOT TO SHOOT POLICE

Taranaki Daily News, 15 October 1930, Page 9

PLOT TO SHOOT POLICE

INDIANS SEEKING REVENGE GANG SEARCHES THE CITY. DEVELOPMENT ON FRONTIER PESHAWAR STRENGTHENED By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 7 p.m. Delhi, Oct. 14. A plot to shoot Bombay police officers in revenge for the death sentences passed on three Indians for conspiracy and murder at Lahore last week is alleged. to have been revealed by Bapat, who was arrested in connection with Friday’s shooting attack on Police Sergeant Taylor and his wife at Bombay. » Bapat, who was the driver of the attackers’ car, is reported to have stated that one of the assailants w r as Gujerati, a woman dressed as a man, and her husband. He added that a -party of five terrorists drove round the city all day long, in search of police officers to shoot and kept watch outside the police stations and the bungalow of Mr. D. Healy, Commissioner of Police, but the latter did not appear. • 4

Shots were fired at Sergeant Smythe, a Lahore police officer, as he was entering his house early yesterday i morning. Sergeant Smythe gave chase but the assailants escaped. Armed police pickets are at present patrolling the city. The frontier situation again shows signs of developing. Sections of Afridis are adopting an aggressive attitude and are planning to occupy caves on the Khajuri Plain, which was the tribesmen’s headquarters during the raids on Peshawar some months ago.

The Peshawar garrison is being strongly reinforced. Elaborate military preparations are in full swing and generally the opinion is expressed that an expedition will shortly leave Peshawar for Tivah to establish a fortified post near Manonai. ,