Horniman began his journalistic career at the '' Portsmouth Evening Mail '' in 1894 . Before coming to India in 1906 to join the '' Statesman '' in Calcutta as its news editor , he had worked with several dailies in England including the '' Daily Chronicle '' and the '' Manchester Guardian '' . In 1913 , he became editor of '' The Bombay Chronicle '' , a daily founded by Pherozeshah Mehta . The paper adopted a trenchant anti-colonial voice and became a mouthpiece of the freedom movement under Horniman . Following the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre , Horniman managed to smuggle photographs of the incident and broke the story about the massacre and its aftermath in the Labour Party 's mouthpiece the '' Daily Herald '' . The exposé broke through the censorship on the matter and unleashed a wave of revulsion in the British public over the incidents and the Hunter Commission . One of his correspondents , Goverdhan Das , was imprisoned for three years . Horniman himself was arrested for his coverage of the massacre and criticism of the colonial government and deported to London , and the '' Chronicle '' closed down ( temporarily )
Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
Jallianwala Bagh massacre
B. G. Horniman