HC Deb 07 November 1932 vol 270 cc6-7
13. Mr. D. GRENFELL

asked the Secretary of State for India whether he can state the reason why, in addition to a curfew order, the riding of ordinary bicycles has been forbidden in Chittagong?

Sir S. HOARE

Both the curfew order and the order prohibiting the use of bicycles apply to youths of the Hindu Bhadralok class only. It is from this class that the terrorists operating in Chittagong draw their recruits, and they have been in the habit of using bicycles to act as scouts for the terrorists.

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