INDIAN CONSPIRACY
PLANS TO PROMOTE ARMED RISING HEAVY SENTENCES METED OUT United Press Association—By fillectrlc Telegraph—Copyright (Received May 2, 12.50 a.m.) CALCUTTA, May 1. After a trial lasting nearly two years, in which 500 witnesses were examined, 31 men were convicted by a special tribunal at Calcutta on a charge of conspiracy to wage war against the King. Six of the men were sentenced to life transportation, three to ten years imprisonment, nine to seven years and the remainder from six to one year. Four of the men were acquitted, but two were immediately re-arrested under the Criminal Law Amendment Act, while two who turned King’s evidence were pardoned. The conspiracy was described as intended to promote a simultaneous armed rising throughout India and Burma, to facilitate which men were recruited and arms, explosives, and funds obtained through widespread dacoites, robberies and murders.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20097, 2 May 1935, Page 9
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143INDIAN CONSPIRACY Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20097, 2 May 1935, Page 9
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