CHINA.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 19 March 1927, Page 9

CHINA.

INDIAN AGITATORS BUSY. ARREST OF RINGLEADERS.. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received March 18, 5.5 p.m.) PEKING, March 17. An attempt to create disaffection among the Indian troops stationed at Shanghai was discovered by the military police who to-day arrested three Indian agitators in the military camp at Yangtee-Poo. One, notorious locally for his antiBritish activities is head of the Sigh-Malwa faction, and was recently sentenced for sedition in India. When arrested, all were in possession of handbills and literature, violently anti-British, urging the troops to refuse to interfere with the Chinese, who are striving for the same object as India for the overthrow of the British yoke. The authorities have known of their activities for some time, but were unable to arrest the leader until to-day. There was a violent scene in the Court, when the leader declared that India would soon follow China’s lead, and emancipate her people by World revolution.

BRUTAL MURDER.

FIERCE ATTACKS ON LOYAL WORKERS.

By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.

(Received March 18, 5.5 p.m.)

SHANGHAI, March 17

The most brutal murder yet committed in the settlement by the terrorists, was perpetrated to-day, when they visited the house of a tramway inspector, who had departed for work. They forced their way into the wife’s bedroom, and shot and stabbed her to death in bed. The inspector had refused to join the strike.