Calcutta, Nov. 2
A number of public meetings were held in Bengal during the week end to protest against the arrests of alleged terrorist leaders under the new ordinance. The Moderates joined the Swarajists in ofranizing " monster demonstration in Calcutta on Friday evening and a hartal was observed throughout the province yesterday, but it ap-Pears to have been more successful inthe country districts than. in Calcutta, where conditions were normal except in the Indian quarters.
The Swaraj Party Executive will meet on Tuesday to consider the situation, which the local Indian press describes ax graver owing to the advent of ernment in England.—Reuter.
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