New Britain herald., 1930-04-24
Gurkha Soldiers Turn Ma chine Guns On Crowd, Killing Dozen - Chitta- gong Insurgents Still Pursued.

Bombay, April A P}-British au- thority in India was confronted with an increasingly grave situation today. Serious rioting and fighting with troops was reported in widely sep arated sections of the empire.
 At Peshawar, important outpost city near the entrance to khyber Pass, one or more British soldiers and about 12 native rioters were killed, reports said, when a mob protested arrest of several anti-gov- ernment agitators.
 A Lahore dispatch said the out break was suppressed only when Gurkha troops poured machine gun and rife fire into the mob, which had held up an armored car, poured kerosene on it, and burned it. Both occupants of the car were burned to death.
 Policeman Attacked
 At another point in the bazaar, a British sergeant on 8 motorcycle approached the rioters, who pulled him off his machine and hacked his face with an axe. He was said to have died of his wounds. Tho dep uty commissioner of police and other police officers were badly wounded and sent to hospitals.
 British and Gurkha troops during the night took absolute charge of the city, and maintained a strong guard at the gates to prevent in- cursions by the hill tribesmen. They are of far different fighting stock from the Hindus and swarm down when there are disturbances with the hope of loot. There are sections about Peshawar over which British authority never has been fully eN- tended.
 On the other side of the empire in Calcutta Bengal a crowd heard that Mayor J. M. Sen Gupta, inn prisoned for six months as a con- sequence of his activity in behalf of the civil disobedience movement, had died or been killed in prison. They stormed the gates of the pris- on demanding to be shown Sen Cup ta, dead or alive.
 The auth critics declined to acqui- esce but issued a statement saying he was alive and not on a hunger strike. Mrs. Sen Gupta, British wife Of the imprisoned mayor, maintain ed a vigil outside the prison through out the night. Police ultimately dis pcrscd the mob outside the prison.
 Troops Pursue Rebels
 Beyond Calcutta in the Chittagons neighborhood troops continued their pursuit of the Insurgents who Fri day night attacked the police ar senal, killing six of the defenders. In a skirmish yesterday the contin- gent of the Burma Valley Light Horse killed 12 of the insurgents, seriously wounded two, and arrested If. Troops sought also the four sus- poets, who while being searched for weapons at Feni, pulled guns and shot five police.
 Meanwhile Mahatma Gandhi, lead CT Of the civil disobedience move ment, continued to preach his doc Urine of passive non-violent rcsls- tance in Gujerat. In a speech at the village of Bardoli he pointed to the women volunteers, led by Mrs. Gandhi, who had walked from Ja- lalpur, and said:
 "There are 100000 palm trees (from which an Indian wine IS ob- tained) in this tract. l want to make a beginning this evening by laylnG the axe on one or two of these trees.'
 At Karachi several persons were sent to hospitals after eating con- traband salt taken from creeks. inc health officer found the salt had been contaminated with ferrous OK idle and was unfit for human con- sumption. He ordered it destroyed.
 In view of attack on Mohamed All, Muslin leader, last night on Gandhi and his campaign for h. dian Independence, the Mahatma explanation of his own attitude to- ward svaraj (independcnce) pub lished in today's issue of Young India is interesting.
 To Arm tho People
 Gandhi declares in the article that the campaign is not designed to establish independence but to "arm the people" so that they may secure swaraj, nut that when swaraJ IS achieved the Muslims and other nll- norities must be placatcd or CIVIL war will follow.
 "The only non-violcnt solution for the communal question that l know" he says. ''is for the Hindus to let the minority communities take what they want. l would not hes1- tate to let the minoritics govern the country. No risk attends this solu- tion."
 London Alarmed