Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1919 — AIRPLANES WAR ON HINDUS [ARTICLE]

AIRPLANES WAR ON HINDUS

English Airmen Use Machine Guns * and Bombs Against Rioters. Simla, India. April 18. —Airplanes were used in coping with the disorders that have broken out in the Punjab. A mob attacked a passenger train in this district and wrecked the railway station at Gujranwala. Airplanes were sent from Lahore and the mob wtps bombed and subjected to machine gun fire from the air. Considerable unrest still exists in Delhi and Lahore. The commissioner for the district has appealed j:o the leading men to use their influence for the reopening of the shops. Otherwise, he announced-, the authorities would take action. Martial law has been declared in the districts of Lahore and Armitsar.