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Show IL0ND0N GIVES BUT i WRITE PAPER TALK i ON 111 TROUBLE High Prices, Income Taxes and Sympathy for Turkey Cause of Punjab Grief LONDON, Jan. 30 A while paper report on the disturbances In the Pun-Jab, Pun-Jab, India, issued today, says that tho special contributory causes in the agitation agi-tation at "Annitsar were speculation, discontent over the prices of commodities, commodi-ties, dissatisfaction with the income tax and an attempt to rouse Islamic feeling among the lower classes out of sympathy with Turkey." j Regarding the developments at La-j hore. the report says that ccouomic conuitions, tho cost of food and clothing cloth-ing and the rental rates contributed to the discontent of the working classes, but that the ready support given to the forces of disorder by the trading class could only be explained . by tho causes affecting the Punjab I as a whole. 00 |