The Archive · 1924

The Communist Revolt

AT REVAL

Insurgents Routed by Machine Gun, Fire, with. Heavy Loss:

Sixty Arrests, Helsingfors, Dee. 1.

It is reported from Reval that Reds had occupied the railway station' and attempted to seize the telegraph and telephone offices. The Minister of Communications was shot on his, way to the. station. Government troops re-captured: the station and restored. order after scattered fights in which hand-grenades -and,. machine-guns were used.

fla bana abe Campaign: to Raise Money for Propaganda in Villages and Rural Districts Galeutta, Nov. 30.

A "Swaraj Week" will begin in Bengal to-morrow. Tt. will consist of an intensive campaign for raising money which will be applied to work in the villages and rural districts.

In a speech at Getepar, Mr. Das foreshadowed that the next stage of the fight. would occur in the villages which he desired to organize ce-operatively with a view to stopping "exploitation of rice, jute and other country. products "by the foreigner."

The Bengal Government and the Eastern Bengal Railway announce a reward of 10,000 rupees for information leading to the arrest of the persons responsible for recent wreck trains Renter.

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