The Archive · 1931

Renewed Rioting in India

Poona, Jan. 12.

Four Indians who were sentenced to death in connection with the Sholapur riots last May were hanged today.

The Police had to charge to disperse a crowd of sympathisers who endeavoured to march to the jail where the executions took place—Reuter, Karachi, Jan, 12.

A total of 150 persons were injured, fifty of them seriously, as the result of an affray lasting" seven hours between the police and members of the Congress, who attempt to hold a procession and meeting Allahabad, Jan, 12.

A. mob has rescued from the Fo-lice two speakers at a Congress meeting who had been arrested. The meeting was held in the village of Kilanpur in defiance of the ordinance against instigation of non-payment of taxes—Renter.

Belgaum, Jan. 12.

Sixty persons have been injured, six of them seriously, as a result of a Police lathi charge which was necessary to disperse' a procession held in protest against the execu tions at Poona to-day of four people hanged in connection with the Shola-pur riots. The procession was held spite of the Magistrate's prohibition of such a meeting—Reuter.

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