UNREST IN INDIA

Wairarapa Daily Times, 29 December 1931, Page 5

UNREST IN INDIA

* SERIOUS RIOTING

RED SHIRTS SENTENCED. Press Association Electric Telegraph— Copyright (Received Tuesday, 10.5 a.m.) CALCUTTA, Monday. Many persons were injured in noting between Moslems and Hindus, at Lahore last night, following the fatal stabbmg of a Moslem youth in a quarrel with a Hindu. Several Hindu shops were looted and troops had to restore order. All processions and meetings have been banned for six days. A serious clash occurred iu the village of||Kaibas ; .i, thirty miles from Cawn’pkre, between the police and peasant Congressmen, who refuse to pay rent to the Government. Several were injured. The arrest of two hundred frontier “Red Shirts' 5 and the sentencing of forty-eight of them to 6 months’ hard labour has quietened the situation there. It appears that the objective of about 3000 “Red Shirts’’ was to force their way into Kohat, but the troops that plan.

GANDHI AT BOMBAY.

REVIVAL OF DISTURBANCES,

(Received Tuesday, 10.15 a.m.)

DELHI, Monday

With Gandhi ’9 arrival from Europe this morning Bombay witnessed a revival of the disturbances from which the city has been remarkably free during the past few months. While Congress men planned an elaborate reception members of the untouchaJljjjp cast, declaring Gandhi had neglected their claims at the London Conference, greeted the Congress chief ■with hostile cries, and processions carryjng black flags. Shortly before dawn a Thousand “Untouchables’’ marched to the pier where they were confronted by a similar number of Congress men. Fighting ensued, in which twelve Congress men, including two leaders, were injured. Gandhi landed at S o’clock, almost hidden by garlands of flowers presented to him by women. He drove to the Congress headquarters, ignoring the decorated car and demanded details of the situation throughout the country.