Word: peshawar
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...finally all Englishmen will sail. Moreover, mutiny was in the air. After hiding the fact for days, His Majesty's Government was obliged to admit in an official communique last week that the conduct of two platoons of the second battalion of the 18th Royal Garswal Rifles at Peshawar recently was "unsatisfactory"-that is, these Hindu troops disobeyed their British commander's order to fire on a Hindu mob. With unrest seething hotter and hotter all over India it was no mean proof of Baron Irwin's iron nerve and fitness for the post of Viceroy that...
Riots and demonstrations throughout India last week showed that the spreading ripple of St. Gandhi's movement for independence (TIME, March 24, et seq.) has widened to reach Peshawar near the remote Afghan frontier...
...protest against British firing on a mob at Peshawar, a funeral procession of 60 coffins was staged last week, but when British police poked the corpses about half of them leaped from their coffins, ran. Magnificent was the restraint of police at Bombay, where thousands of St. Gandhi's sympathizers were allowed to parade past the great stone arch called "The Gateway of India," past the Royal Yacht Club, past the Taj Mahal Hotel...
...protest" when St. Gandhi's secretary was arrested; 4) Baron Irwin proclaimed that "civil disobedience . . . is rapidly developing . . . into violent resistance to the constituted authority"; 5) the Government clapped an official censorship on all the northwestern provinces, ordered evacuation of European women and children from Peshawar and other cities on the Afghan frontier...
...From Peshawar, on India's northern frontier, last week, two Scotch bankers, J. L. Hutcheson and J. V. Dunsmore of the Imperial Bank of India, motored out with an escort of a native sergeant and two soldiers to see the sunrise from the top of the Khyber Pass. Enraged by the sight of two Scotchmen looking at the Indian sun, the Indian sergeant ran amok, shot and killed both the Scotch bankers, was killed himself by the two Indian privates. Peshawar officials hastened to deny that the frenzied Indian sergeant was connected with the placid St. Gandhi movement...