Bombay, June 21.
Five hundred police carrying lathes (sticks) charged dense masses of civil disobedience volunteers, who were congregating on the esplanade in the maidan to-day in defiance f the official prohibition.
Numerous spectators, who had fore gathered in the expectation of] exciting scenes at a review of the so-called Nationalist. tear. Force by Motilal Nehra, were mixed up with the demonstrators.
Thirty-five people were sent to hospital suffering from minor Juries The police later withdrew.
Subsequently the civil disobedience volunteers made a further attempt to carry out their programme, but the police returned and dispersed them.
Altogether over 400 people were' taken to hospital. Motilal Nehru remained on the spot throughout until the crowd dispersed.
Demonstration that Failed June 22, To-day was fixed for a monster:
weession of followers of Gandh in sympathy with the Sepoys who were recently court martialled on account of thei unsatisfactory behaviour during the rioting at Peshawar. The "War, Council" of the National Congress, in defiance of the official ban, planned all the details for the demonstration. The police took elaborate precautions and blocked all roads from the Congress headquarters. A company of the East Lancashire Regiment were posted ready for any. calls. Then down came the monsoon rain and everything was literally washed out.
All is now quiet—Reuter.
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