RISINGS IN INDIA

Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14257, 7 January 1920, Page 5

RISINGS IN INDIA

WIDESPREAD NATURE REVEALED.

BRITISH RULE THREATENED. DESTRUCTION OF RAILWAYS. (Australian, N.Z. and Router.) Received January 6, 5 p.m. LONDON, January 5. Telegrams report that the widespread nature of the Indian risings is disclosed in the latest evidence given before the Hunter Commission. All classes at Kasur, an aggregation of fortified hamlets 30 miles southward from Lahore, attacked the British shouting "English rule is ended." They beat two English soldiers to death. Forty leaders of the uprising were given eighteen strokes, and a gallows was erected in a public place, but was not used. Mobs at Gujranwala, forty miles northward of Lahore, burned the railway station and bridges. Aeroplanes bombed and machine-gunned tho town and neighbouring villages for two days, setting fire to various buildings. Similar outbreaks occurred at fourteen places, the natives always beginning with the destruction of the railways, upon which the frontier armies are depending. The military used an armoured train which machine-gunned various villages. The Traffic Manager of the NorthWestern Railway stated that the system was paralysed for twenty days, British rule being seriously endangered.