UNREST IN INDIA.

Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17589, 19 December 1928, Page 5

UNREST IN INDIA.

BRITISH OFFICIAL KILLED. ——(— SHOT BY STUDENTS. LORD IRWIN'S WARNING. (By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) DELHI, Dec. 18. The murder of a British police ofllce,is reported from Lahore, Mr J. P Saunders, aged 21, Assistant-Super-intendent of police at Lahore, was brutally murdered while he was leaving his'office last evening. Two Indian students fired five shots at him, and then killed his Indian clerk, who attempted to arrest them. The assailants disappeared into an adjoining Hindu college, and escaped by another entrance. It is believed that the crime was one of revenge for the death of Lai Lajpat Rai, .the Punjab Nationalist leader, on the. same day last month after a clash with the police at a boycott demonstration against the Indian Commission. The Viceroy, Lord Irwin, in a speech at the annual dinner of the European Association, said the most bitter and most confirmed reactionary would never be able to inflict one-tenth of the damage to India's cause that India was likely to suffer at the hands of her false friends, who would guide her toward the morass of independence. The demand for independence must do irreparable injury to India's cause and sadden the hearts of the wiser of India's sons and friends.