§ 14. Mr. MORGAN JONES forasked the Secretary of State for India if he is aware that on the 7th April police entered shops in Cawnpore and arrested customers and shopkeepers in the course of dispersing a procession; and what action has been taken by the authorities in response to the complaints made to the collector of Cawnpore by the merchants?
§ Sir S. HOAREMy information is to the effect that during the first week in April Congress supporters in Cawnpore took advantage of the replacement of the additional armed police by a force of civil police to initiate a vigorous boycott of British textile goods. The boycott was accompanied by a good deal of rowdyism and caused considerable alarm and confusion in the cloth market, necessitating the sending of a special force of armed police to the city, on whose arrival the situation rapidly improved. I have no information as to the specific points raised in the question, but if complaints were made to the authorities they no doubt received proper attention.