CABLEGRAMS

Western Star, 8 May 1908, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

ANABQHISM IN .INDIA

CALCUTTA, Mjay 4.

In connection with Muzaffarpur out ragp cartloads of bombs, electrical appliances and anarchist literature have been seized at Calcutta. The prisoners include -a chemist who was recently sent to Paris to study the latest methods of terrorism. The worst class of the vernacular press and 'the speeches of extremist leaders are responsible for the anarchist tendencies of a section of the populace. A widespread organisation, well supplied with funds, has been discovered. The police declare that bombs are being manufactured in several centres in India.

One of the Muzaffarpur assassins declared that iho had been inspired by a study, of the vernacular Dress and the lectures of Bepin Chandra Pal, the latter a notorious sedition moiigieiV

The Times' Simla correspondent says grave responsibility will rest an Visocunt Morley if he refuses (to sanction legislation to suppress newspapers containing incitements to violence.

The Daily Express’ Calc itta ccrrespendent states that uncunfi. rr.ed repoints are circulated that documents seized at the bomb factory reveal a plot to kill Viscount Kitchener and other high officials. INDIAN FRONTTEII RiSING LONDON, May 4 Two Britishers were wounded during the sniping at Jamfod. Hanot's Brigade lias l arrived at Ali Musjid. CALCUTTA May 4. Military movements are severely censored at Simla. Many officers have boon rec allied for duty, and actual orders for operations are being kept secret, thus causing much excitement. LONDON, May t. The Times says unofficially that war with Afghanistan has been practically proceeding since the attack on Landi Kjotal. The enemy conn rise militia levees, and these form the first reserve of the regular army. All the stories about the Ameer’s or h.s brother Sirdar Nasrulla Khan’s (Commander-In-Chief of the Afghan Army) forbidding the Afghans to tmdertake hostilities are utterly false. Afghan officials arc known to have actively assisted the mullahs in an organised invasion of territory” under British control. The j rompt rccupalion of Khybei" Pass will probably lead to the retirement of the Afghans but is no guarantee Hint their tactics will not be defeated. The Times says that (reneral WHlcock’s presence at Land' Kolal indicates that the Mohwands are no long er the chief objects of anxiety.