CLASHES IN CALCUTTA
CONGRESS PARTY SUPPORTERS , AND COMMUNISTS EL^CTION CAUSES TENSION | Received Monday, 1.15 p.m. j CALCUTTA, March 24. i One was kiliea and fii'teen were taken to hospital and fifty others injured in clashes between Con- 1 gress Party supporters and Comrnunists in Caicutta. The clashes occurred in connection with today s eiections in Caicutta and suburbs for the four Labour seats on the Bengal Leeislative Assemb'iy. ! Tension between Communist and Congress supporters campaigning for votes has been increasing in the last en days. Brickbats, staves and soda water bottles were freely used in fights outside a number of polling stations. f - Tlie pohce opened fire in one incident at Bally, ten miles from Caicutta, seripusiy wounding one person, and followed this- up with a lathi charge against a melee between Communists and Congress supporters outside a polling station, in which fifteen were injured and taken to hospital.
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Chronicle (Levin), 25 March 1946, Page 5
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