UNREST IN INDIA
CONGRESS CRIPPLED BY ARREST OF LEADERS. Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright DELHI, Saturday. The arrest of Congress men in India continues on an increasing scale daily and the. organisation is finding acute difficulty in securing leaders to replace those arrested. Reports from every centre indicate a sharp rally to the Government’s side and there is an optimistic feeling among traders over the Government’s assurance that tyranical Congress interference with dealers in British goods will not be tolerated. SALUTARY SENTENCE, “FOR WAGING WAR,” DELHI, Sunday. W. N. Roy, the notorious Indian revolutionary and Communist, was sentenced at Cawnpore to twelve years’ transportation for waging war against the King. Roy, who has been wanted since 1924 for planning rebellion. and the establishment of a Socialist proletariat in India, was arrested at Bombay in July last year. He- was formerly a member of the Moscow International and was responsible for the direction of the Central Communist agitation and propaganda in India, but was expelled as a renegade. Dr, Ansari, the third Congress president who has been arreste.d since the Government ban on this organisation, was sentenced to six months’ simple imprisonment.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 11 January 1932, Page 5
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