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POLICE TORTURE
The Sessions Judge of Godavari han delivered judgement in the case of police torture against Sub-Inspector Mahomed Khvrati, head constable and two cons tables attached to Jaginamnet Police Station for wrongful connen ent and culpable homicide not amounting to murder. The Sub- -Inspetor was sentenced to five years the head constable to seven years" and the constables to four years' imprisonment. The facts of the case were that while eliciting information they thrashed and beat The accused in Jagmampet severely. One. died and the other attempted Suicide.
AN INDIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE At a meeting of some two hundred Indian merchants, of Rangoon, held on the 13th September at the Victoria Hall, there was established a Chamber of Commerce under the name of the "Rangoon Indian Chamber of Commerce" Committee members were appointed and some fifty merchants and firms joined the new Chamber as members SEARCH IN JESSORE
A correspondent writes under date the 10th Yesterday the Jessore Patrika office was a arched with a view, it is alleg rd, to to obtain some clue with regard to the Satenshia dacoity case. Nothing incrimi nating, however, was found. Two letters and a Jama Khurach were anized and taken pissession of by the over-zealous police officers.
DAINGRA'S CRIME EXTOLLED
Most of the London newspaper, an well as a number of private individuala, received this week an anonymous docuwent dealing with Dhingra affair. The pamphlots were sent from Paris. On the cover is a small photograph of Dhingra and a reproduction of the state
ut he made in court, at the trial. The rest of the document is a wild attack on the British and the Government. All Indians are exharted to follow Dhingra's example, and the writer holds assassination to be an act of heroism. Lord Ampthill, in a letter to the
press, refers to the assortion of the Daily
News" that the alleged statement of Dhingra had been for one time in the possession of certain of his compatriots. it sous impossible, says Lord Ampthill, that those compatriots should have obtained a copy after Dhingra's arrest aud if so it shows that there are some who knew of the murderer's intention before he committed the ghastly crime.
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THE DEPORTEEN.
Mr. O'Grady asked the Under Secre tary whether the Government bad yet received any report as to whether the Cases of the nine gentlemen who were arrested and deported in December bad been reconsidered.
The Master of Elibank: The Secretary of State has not received any report from the Government of India.
In reply to further questions he said he had made it clear that the report to be supplied every six months had refer ence to the question of the health, comfort and conduct of the prisoners. If the Honourable Member pressed the point of would be im. his question too closely, it possible for the Government of India to to consider the case of these prisoners Oxcept as s as specified by the ly the Regulation on two specified occasions in each year. The Secretary of State had the question of the deportees constantly in mind, and he had not the slightest doubt that he would release those prisoners at the moment when the Government of India considered it would be in the public interest.
Mr. Mackarness asked whether the words were not perfectly clear that the Government of of India were to consider whether the orders for detention were to continue in force, and whether the prison. ers were to be further detained t
The Master of Elibank said it was a
question of policy which had been de cided by the House. The Prime Minis ter recently made very emphatic declaration on the subject, and it was not competent for him to argue a question of policy on which the Cabinet had formed a decision which had been confirmed
by the House.
KRISHNAVARMA'S PAPER.
Krishnavarma has found another printer for the Indian Socioloigst in the shape of a Mr. Guy Aldred, who says "I am not personally concerned with any propagan da Mr. Krishnavarma may see t efit to use. My reason for publishing the paper my desire to vindicate the absolute freedom of the press. If I proceeded against 1 intend to raise the point that absolute liberty of the press is granted by the British Constitution. I shall not plead not plead ignorance or pretend that I do not know the risks I am running. I am championing the right to publish what called seditious literature not in this case so much
it is seditions, but because the prohibition of Krishnavarma's publications would be the thin end of the wedge. It would be the beginning of a course which might end in the refusal of the right of Sir Henry Cotton or Mr. Hyndman to publish their political views.
ALDRED AT BOW STREET.
THE INDIAN ROCTOLOGIST," Aldred the Printer of the "Indian. sociologist" was charged at old Baley on Sept 10. The Attorney General in reciting objects of the publication of the "Indian Sociologist" declared that it aimed at the destruction of Indian
Government mainly by murder of English.
men and women. The publication was
no way a polilical but a criminal offence and was an attempt to influence the naturally susceptible class of fellow subjects coming to England to learn professions which they intended to practise in India. Aldred has beon sentenced to one year' imprisonment in the First Division. Addressing the jury, he declar ed that the prosecution was a malicious one. He had never advocated political
assassination.
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At Bow Street Guy Alfred Aldred, of the Bakunin Press, Stanlake Road Shep herd's Bush, was charged on a warrant with printing and publishing a seditions libel in the Soiologist.
Mr. A.H. Bodkin prosecuted on behalf the Director of Public Prosecutions. He said it was a prosecution which would disclose some very serious matters in regard to the dissemination of seditious printing in this country and elsewhere The offence was done deliberately by the defendant, after a warning not only as a printer but as a writer Aldred held Anarchistic views He was known as an associate of anar h ists in London, and he for six months had been in correspondence with Krishnas arina. In the autumn of 1908 there in India which resulted in were outrages resante Indians were tried convicted and executed the death of an Englishman, and fr for wilful murder. The December number of the Indian Sociologist published an article headed the "Indian Martyrs
Memorial" and proposing a monument
to those four men. Krishnavarma fi bis safo placa in Paris, appealed
fellow-countrymen to subscribe these objects. That was referred to the August number, for which Aldred was responsible. The first column, al though not signed was by Krishnavarma The article introduced Dhinga crime in such a way as to put it in the others and to light of an example to who might read the particular publica tion "The name of Madan Lal Dhingra, stated the article, "will go down to po terity as that of one who sacrificed h his life on the altar of an ideal. Hi statement and conduct which are conspicuous for courage, truth and patrio tiam, put him on the very highest plane of the heroes of the wor! I's struggle for freedom. Standing alone and defying the tyranny of tyrannical Britain, in gra appeals to us as one of the most i markable figures in Indian history."
A paragraph over the initials of the prisoner stated:-I have undertaken the printing and publication of the paper in defence of a free press. Prisoner was remanded, on bail of £900.
