THE INDIAN UNREST
VICEROY'S OFFICIAL REPORT. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received May 2, 8.5 p.m. LONDON, April 30. The Press Bureau has issued the Viceroy's report to April 28. It states that in the Punjab five rioters were killed and 12 arrested. In connection with the recent riot at Chuharkama, mobs burned Sanghirhill and damaged the Kaithl-Gujerat railway stations. Wire cutting continues in several districts, otherwise all is quiet. It is also quiet at Amritsar and Lahore, and on the North-west Frontier. The province of Peshawar reports that the movement is essentially Hindu. At Delhi the position is quiet; but.it is reported, that Delhi merchants, are exercising pressure on merchants elsewhere by refusing to honour their money remittances, and emissaries from Delhi are stirring up trouble in the Punjab., Bombay is quiet.. .There the leaders so far have restrained the Moslems, despite a strong feeling regarding the Turkey and cognate questions. Inflammatory notices addressed to the troops have been posted in Meerut.
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Waikato Times, Volume 90, Issue 14052, 3 May 1919, Page 5
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