'A profound sensation was created in aleucta, at the news at Christmas time of the attempted assassination of Mr. B.C. Allen 1.. c. s., Magistrate of Dacca. It will be remembered that Dacea is the capital of the new province of Eastern Bengal and Assam. Mr. Allen had left the station on his way to Bombay, as he was going on far-Iungh, and was shot on the Goalundo platform whilst awaiting the train, at about nine o'clock at night on Decomber 23. The mysterious part of the affair in that the shote wore fired on a platform crowded with passengers, -and Jyet the sesadsins oscdped; two native
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