Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-26
INDIAN MOB TAUNTS
BRITISH TROOPS IN
FRONTIER PROVINCE
Armed Officer Unable to Dis
perSe Nationalist in
PeshaWar Parade.
NEELA POLICE KILL ONE
AS 1000 DEFY SALT LAW
Viceroy's Cabinet Meets at Simla
to Study in Detail Situation
in Northwest.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOMBAY, India, April 26.-FurtheI
disorders at Peshawar increased appre-
hension here today that grave events
may be shaping themselves in the
buffer northwest frontier province.
Lahore dispatches to the London
Daily Mail said a mob paraded the
streets yesterday and tainted troops on
guard. A British officer, facing the
ring leaders with a drawn revolver,
tried in vain to persuade them to dis
perse their followers.
When an armored car which had
been sent for arrived a machine gun
was trained on the mob, which then
scattered.
Earlier the indians had paraded with
"corpses" of those slain in Wednes-
days rioting, in which, it is said now,
there were SO casualties. Upon investi-
cation it proved the Indians. seeking
to enlarge the death reports, had
placed live men in the collins.
Europeans Flee Scene.
ATflVal OF TWO COIIlpdIlIcS VI oAAeAoAA
infantry and two machine gun sec
tons created a feeling of security
among European residents Of the from
tier city. Signalers on the city walls
kept constantly on the alert and main
tanned communications with headquar-
tiers.
It was presumed here orders for
evacuation of European women and
children from Peshawar were being put
into effect, but there was no def1nlte
word. British missionary societies said
they had six women missionaries In
Peshawar and the neighborhood.
There was a new outbreak at Neela,
near Calcutta, Bengal, Thursday night,
when 1000 persons pelted with stones
policemen who interfered with their
salt-making Sixteen policemen were
injured. The constabulary answered
with a volley of buckShot, tnJur1ng
three natives and killing one.
Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the civil
disobedience movement, continued at
Navsari, but there were reports he soon
would come to Bombay. He Is con-
tinuing his exhortations to his follow
ers for non-violence in the movement
which they hope will bring India inde-
pendfnce. ~ss
Secretary Sentenced.
Mahadev Desai, private secretary to
the Mahatma, who has been in charge
of his college at Ahmadabad, was SEN
fenced to three months simple imprison-
ment and was fined 5000 rupees Tor
Illicit salt making.
A dispatch from Simla, the Summer
capital. said disturbances at Peshawar
were studied in detail at a meeting OF
the victory's cabinet here today.
Machine guns are posted at vital
points and the bazaar and markets at
Peshawar are still closed, although 1t
was said the situation was consider
ably improved. Sir Philip Chetwode,
chief of general staff. and the deputy
chief, Maj. Gen. s. F. Muspgatt, both
testified
The total admissions to hospitals
after the rioting was given as rs. 1t
, was said the border tribes appeared to
be entirely unaffected by the Peshawar
outbreaks.
POona Lawyer Arrested.
L. 3. Bhopotakar, senior member OF
The Poona bar and former member OF
thp Bombay legislative council. was ar
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