TERRORISM IN INDIA.
BENGAL CONSPIRACY. SERIES OF POLICE RAIDS. ARMS AND MUNITIONS SEIZED. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. DELHI, Nov. 1. Disclosures of a terrorist plot were made at a trial at Calcutta to-day of 15 Bengalis on charges of conspiracy. As a sequel to the recent attempt to assassinate Police Commissioner Tegert and to the bomb outrages at the Jorabagan and the Eden Garden police outposts city detectives and policemen made a series of raids, in the course of which the accused were arrested. Large quantities of live bombs andbombshells, revolvers, daggers, ammunition, detonators, gun-cotton, seditious literature and chemicals for the manufacture of bombs were seized. In one house plans were discovered of police outposts, electric power-houses and European clubhouses in all parts of the city. At / the opening of the trial Khan Sahib Shamsuddahar, Assistant-Police Commissioner, said some of the accused had confessed before a magistrate, revealing a widespread conspiracy to manufacture explosives and collect arms for the indiscriminate killing of Europeans and high police cfilclals.
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Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18166, 3 November 1930, Page 5
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