INDIAN EDITOR SENT TO GAOL
PUBLISHED LIES ABOUT EUROPEANS.
(United Preaa Assn.-—- By Electric Telegraph.— Copyfigh t.) (Received October 2, 11.25 a.m.) DELHI, October 1. The editor of the Calcutta Nationalist daily paper. “ Forward,” has been sentenced to imprisonment for three
months and has been fined 5000 rupees for the publication of an alleged account by “ horrified eye-witnesses ” in which allegations were made that 50 per cent of the Indian victims of the Belur railway disaster were knocked on the head with' iron rods by the European staff of the relief train in order to save them the trouble of rescue.
In the course of a scathing judgment the magistrate held that there was not the slightest foundation for the allegations. The article was written for the purpose of creating hatred of Europeans by Indians and was published for the same motive. When the police searched the printing office the manuscript had disappeared. The pri’nter foreman was fined £67. United Service.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18581, 2 October 1928, Page 9
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