Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-29
'..'gx OFFICIAL
 EPORT OF RECENT
 l R|OTING N lNDIA!
Ike Followed When Euro beans Were Fired on,
 Says Report

rerarding the seditious riots
 Til in Amritsar, Lahore and
 k;stricts in the Punjab, British
 has just been issued here by
 hdia office. The disturbances
 nritsar were put down by
 lier General R. E. Dyer, the
 h officer in command, with an
 hand, 290 persons being killed
 He fire.
 $ stated in the report that the
 Ing followed murderous at
 on Europeans and that Gener-
 fer had not ordered the crowd
 had gathered in public meet
 blace in Amritsar, to disperse.
 that 1850 rounds were fired
 the thickest parts of the
 q. It states that after natives
 bearly beaten to death an Eng
 woman doctor, the general off
 ommanding the British troops
 nritsar ordered that the street bsed where this attack occurred hat persons who passed thru it to do so on their hands and
 vs of these occurrences did not
 this county until the end of year, and then created a big
 tion and not a little controver- khich has not yet died down. repcrt now given out comes
 the Punjab government.
 Ter describing the growth of an ttish feeling at Amritsar, cul- ting in murderous attacks on beans, the report tells how fal Dyer was at length given >rity to take whatever steps necessary to re-establish civil kol This was on April IS. Gen Dyer accordingly considered it huty to disperse prohited and Fful meetings, such as had been |by the natives for some time in Jappewalian Bagh, an open \, regularly used for public 6ngs, with houses on all four and three or four passages Fg into it. The report continues Distance:
 neral Dyer was not able imme- ily to provide for the purpose a IT force than 50 Indian troops Eher with 40 Gurkhas armed only
 kukris or knives. Accompa- by the European superinten- of police, he took these to the ewalian Bagh. He had with him Earmored cars in reserve, but
 ss. hru which he entered was |NLM to admit them and they left in the street outside. He no machine guns with him. hen he arrived, at about 5 o'clock oun dthat the crowd had swol- to several thousands, and it was addressed by a speaker on a d platform. His troops deploy- n either side of the entrance ground on which they stood be- Iome feet higher than the gen Ass.al sof the enclosure. He did the crowd to disperse, but aeded to take action to disperse
 once by fire. There were l. 'ounds fired, fire being directed rowds not on individuals, and rected from time to time where 'rowds were thickest. The am tion used was the ordinary 1908 cartridge. On the conclusion le firing the troops retired; the Der of casualties were not coun.
 subsequent inquiry indicated about 290 persons were killed as asserted that these included small children, but inquiries only been able to establish the of one boy under 10 and foul r Is years.
 rtial law was proclaimed a tsar on April 15 and it's admin lion seems to have provoked { s of complaints, against whicl PunJab government has fount cessary to defend itself.
 Q first charge is that relating le Kucha Tawarian, a street il h Miss Sherwood, an Englisl an doctor, was nearly beaten t by infuriated natives. Th' ral officer commanding the Brit troops in Amritsar closed tn t to public traffic, placing tt at each end, and ordered tha 'yone passing it would have t. o on his hands and knees.
 was clearly understood by ev ne that it did not apply to wo
 The order was actually in fore cen April 19 and 24, and in al t 5o persons complied with tn ,tions to go thru on all fours sergeant in charge of the picke stated that one ma lied thru three times, and ha ,e stopped from giving furthe bitions.
 number of triangles (for flog ) were erected in the city an men sentenced by the summar 'ts to be flogged. The only flop $ that could be considered to b ny way of a public nature wer N men who were flogged in tn
 ln which Miss Sherwood wa ultcd, The men were implicate ne attack on Miss Sherwood. Oth were whipped at area headoua, ; at the police or in private. ne major charges arising out c disorder were tried by the mal law commissions, 62 cases in a g put before them, involving 2e lsed. Of these 21s were cor e,d. FSy-one were sentenced { n, transportation for If,
 to Nisonment for 10 year or ssven years, 10 for five year or three years and II for Jesse gas. In six cases whipping wa