Emergency Powers. to Stop Anarchy in Bengal: Arrest of Chief Seditionists Simla, Oct. 25.
An Extraordinary Gazette announces the arrest of Mr. C. R.
'Dass' right-hand men, Messrs. Bose, fitter and Roy. The last named the Secretary of the Nationalist Congress. The arrests follow the promulgation of an ordinance by the Viceroy, Lord Reading, under emergency powers. supplementing the ordinary criminal law of Bengal.
The Viceroy declares that the ordinance will in no. wise touch the Tiberties of peaceful citizens. He has hitherto been reluctant to yoke special powers until convinced that all other means of dealing with the emergency had been exhausted, but he is now satisfied that the anarchical. movement was deep-seated and dangerous, and plans for criminal outrages dangerously developed, Lord Reading states that Permanent measures to remedy the situation will be duly presented by the Bengal Goyernment,—Reuter.
Simla, Oct, 25. ition to the arrest of the three vight-hand men of Mr. C. Das following the promulgation of an ordinance by the Viceroy under the emergency powers supplementing the ordinary criminal law in Bengal, 24 others have been arrested, including 13 under the new ordinance.
The police commissioner, inter viewed by Reuter's correspondent, emphasized that evidence of an organized plot necessitated the Calcutta, Oct. 25.
Fifty-six persons have been are rested here up to the present in connexion with the political situation—Reuter.
Calcutta, Oct. 28.
There have now been 72 arrests under the new ordinance, The Bengali leaders have appealed to the whole country to observe a Hartal or day of mourning on November 1 as a protest against the ordinance—Reuter.
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