Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27

ferring extraordinary powers for sup
preston of disorder. Troops and police
are sent in pursuit of the raiders, who
had cut the telephone and telegraph
wires to Calcutta and blocked the rail-
road by derailing a train. AT Calcutta
the government rounds up Nationalist
leaders. Mohammedan leaders mani
festo in favor of the British authorities.
"Untouchables" un YIN p a t h t C to
Gandhi. The Chittagong affair appears
to have been the work of anarchists
exploiting the conditions created by the
Swarai movement.
On the twenty-second serious stu
alton develops at Madras, vast mob
demonstrating violently, but 1t is ham
died by the police with a show of
troops in the background most adml-
rably, with the result only of few
broken heads.
A fiare-up on the twenty-third
at Peshawur, in the northwest frontier
province near the Afghan frontier. An
armored car manned by two soldiers is
patrolling through the city and en-
counters a wild mob. The latter pour
buckets of gasoline on the car, apply
flame, and the soldiers are burned to
death. Elsewhere in the city mob
blocks the way to a police sergeant on
a motor cycle, hacks him to peices with
hatchets. Gurkha troops are rushed
into the city. Several of them having
been hurt by bricks hurled by the popu-
lace, they fire, killing 20 or so, wound
ing many more; the mop dlsperses' Ihe
tr1Isty Gurkhas patrol the city.
The same day a detachment OF troops
sent in pursuit of the Chittagong raid
ers overtake a party Of the latter num-
bering 80, kill 7, wound S, the rest
escaping. On the other hand, While TOUR
Hindus suspected of participation IN
the raid are being searched, they whip
out revolVerS, wound five of their cap
tors and make their escape.
On the twenty-fifth, at Diamond
Harbor near Calcutta, detachment OF
police sent TO prevent illicit manuiac-
ture of salt are attacked by good sized
mob with sticks and stones. At last
they fire and the mob disperses. AS
they used buCkshot and fired low, the
casualties are not serious.
All British women and children are
being evacuated from PeShawur.
Arrests and jail sentences for viola
ton of the salt monopoly continue nu-
merously.
The Bombay correspondent of the
London Times declares that the Ganonl
movement has increased in strength
"phenomenally" within the fortnight.
Note the countrywide distribution OF
the disorders-Madras, Calcutta, Chit
TAGGING, Poona, Karachi, Peshawur. All,
whittier, India?
4 +
CHINA.-Gen. Chang Kai-Shek is
said to have as German military ad-
yisers on his pay roll. Some of the
uuidnics will have it that they are In a
sense German commercial agents also,
diverting to German firms purchases
and contracts of the Marking govern
ment Are they the advance agents OF
a new Drang Mach Osten policy? In
May last year Col. Won Kriebel succeed
ed Col Bauer (of old one of Luden-
dorffs ablest lieutenants) as head OF
the German group. The air unit OF the
Marking army is led by Lieut.. Fuchs,
q German war pilot. A Maj Hummer
is recognizing the gendarmerie at Nam
king, and German specialists are di-
recting in the arsenals of Marking,
Hankow and Shanghai. All of the new
machinery in the arsenals under Nam
kings control is of German make. We
hear, too, that more and more Chinese