TROUBLE IN INDIA
ACTIVITY OF NATIONALISTS. FOMENTING STRIKES BY BOYCOTT* (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received October 15, 10.45 a.m. DELHI, OctoTTer 14. There have been significant happen-* ings at Bombay lately, including several sporadic strikes. One result is that the city has been plunged into darkness for several days. The Nationalists' political agents incited the dock labourers to refuse t> handle Indian food products intended for export, declaring that a famine existed in the interior, and in the meantime (he leading Indian merchants have signed a manifesto in favour of boycotting the new Council. . The object of these agitators is to make the inauguration of reforms a fiasco. Similar strikes have occurred at Cal-i cutta.
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Waikato Times, Volume 93, Issue 14492, 15 October 1920, Page 5
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