The Archive · 1927

Bomb Seizure in Calcutta

Calcutta was startled during the week by the information that the Police had raided a hut in one of [the thickly populated districts of [Cateatta and discovered a miniature hom factory. Thirteen bombshallg ready for the preparation of exe two revolvers and. about 50 cartridges were seized and two young Bengalis were arrested. The rut la inhabited by men and women! oslonging to the servant class and suspicion vras aroused by the fact that the two Bengalis arrested jorviously were better educated and a different: station, though they always tried, it ts stated, to conceal their identity by living in the same fay as those surrounding them, Although the polis have tried hard to'ellet information from the young recording their relatives, they Rave mafsfained an obstinate silence, though they have given their names las Gupta and Bhattacharje. Other nosh, agarches followed, but tha criminating. 4 police failed'to find anything

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