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Show UNREST IN INDIA T 1EATENS TO BRING REVOLT I STRIKERS KK II mm office, I LflOLSHOPS I Boycott Movement Against British Rule Speaks With Many Arrests BOMBAJi Dee. India Iufor- 1 . , U) Threi thousand strikers .;t one mill In the vicinity of Bombay, wrecked the office of the factory, a few days ago and stoned a caf containing police, seyerely In luring one inspector and two sol- BBsa diera Before the police succeeded In dlspersliix the strikers, they took looting shops. number of arrests ssssa n p, made and th mill district Is be- C'tj lug picketed. vi r disorders took place else- M where in the city, some stoning ol slret I can being Indulged in at various The situation became serious fBBBm enough for the commissioner "of poiie al to call the mounted police, who charg-ed charg-ed tie crowd In seml-cltcular fashion 1 1 havi not been reported, init the crowd broke up and fled - I Wholesale .irre.-ts were soon after made, 60 uu-n being taken In custodv. I I st (;kis SERIOUS For more than two months now the eitv uf l!otnb.iv has hern Witney: ing , , 1 strikes in 1 1" miu Indus- f -. rei 1 -i ra I n gs 1 works land the postal service. The tension has grown every day more serious especially on account of government I refusal to arbitrate the various dis-putes. dis-putes. n all India Trade Unron con-' con-' pn s recently held In the foremost industrial city has given further im- gfl petus to the laboring ranks Hfl The Bombay strikers have sent a cable London asking for financial pport from the British labor move-ment move-ment for their cause. in 1 m pur now DELHI, Dec (India Informa- KM tion Bureau) Active steps are being taken b3 the liritlsh government In northern India to arrest the leader HH of tlo non-cooperation movement, of HJ which Gandhi, is the , hief proponent. There have been eight cases of pro -I edition on charges of sedition or at-tempting at-tempting to seduce troops. Five of the ed 1 11 on Icted and three I 111 pen I 1 Almost all of thei an litors, publicists and education- Mm been busy Influencing H the people to boycott government In-stitutlons In-stitutlons and British goods and to re-fuse re-fuse 1 enlist In the army to be sent abroad for service Kl 1 DI N I s REBELLION'S ! The scditous meetings act has been put Into force in the city of Delhi and 'four districts of the Punjab where l s . .1 r the shooting of 3.000 Hindus took place) to restrain political acti-k'itlea acti-k'itlea in these areas. At a meeting or students ami faculty of the Benares Hindu unlversil 1 r. tolutlon was adopted a pprov Ing t he . poll, v of non-cooperation and de-nianding de-nianding thai the trus'ees of the insti-tufjor, insti-tufjor, ,n connection with Him PH slud rita m themselves to stand with the national Institutions in favor of non-coopera-tion movement and sent fraternal greetings to" all school and eollegi a which are being sUrted all over the The Benares Hindu university Is the largest national Institution in India subject i" supervislonal control of the government at the present time |