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Show 172 Indians Face Death I-ondm. Advices from ' Lucknow state that the death sentence has been imposed on 17U Indians nccused of murder and frson ns a result of the non -o-'poratlonlst rioting at Chnurl-Chanra last February. Seven of the two hundred twenty-tight persons per-sons who were orUrnally held on the barges died while awaiting trial. Two others received two-year prison ( , ' terms. Forty-seven were ncqulttcd. Soventeen native police were killed in the rlotlnu at Chaurl-Cbaiin, which occurred on February 4 last The demonstration was ono eplsodo in a week-end of antl-P.rltish uprisings upris-ings in various parts of India. Tb mob at Chari-Chaurn, numbering -009 Indian Nationalist volunteers, reinforced rein-forced by villagers, attacked the pollen po-llen officers and billed the entire staff, Including the eight policomfla who were sent to reinforce t!ie posf. The buildings were burned. Chaurl-Chaura Chaurl-Chaura Is fifteen miles southwest f Ooral piir on the Jtengal Norihwest-ern Norihwest-ern railway. |