REIGN OF TERROR IN BENGAL

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19300, 29 September 1932, Page 9

REIGN OF TERROR IN BENGAL

EUROPEAN LIVES IN DANGER

ELECTORAL REFORM NOW INOPPORTUNE United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received Sept. 28, 8.30 p.m.) CALCUTTA, Sept. 28. The Bengal European Association states that In view of the growth of the terrorist movement in the Province, and the threats against the lives of Europeans generally they are opposed to the grant of a further measure of constitutional reforms In Bengal, while lawless conditions continue. CHITTAGONG OUTRAGE. DRASTIC MEASURES FOLLOW ARRESTS.

United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright (Received Sept. 28, 7,30 p.m.) CALCUTTA, Sept. 28. Twenty-four youths were arrested in connection with the Chittagong outrage.

All vehicular and pedestrian traffic has been forbidden between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., in or near AngloIndian quarters.

(Terrorists armed with stolen police rifles, revolvers and bombs raided the Assam-Bengal Railway Institute at Pahartali, Chittagong, when a social gathering was in progress. The raiders threw a bomb inside, killing an aged European woman and wounding two police officers and six other Europeans. The raiders escaped. Later the body of a young woman was found near the Institute marked with bullet wounds. This was identified as that of a woman missing since the shooting affray at Dhalgat, Chittagong, on June 14, when Captain Cameron was killed in an encounter with terrorists.]