SITUATION DETERIORATES

Chronicle (Levin), 5 September 1946, Page 5

SITUATION DETERIORATES

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Curfew Extended BOMBAY ON BRINK OF WHOLESALE RIOTING

By Telegraph

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Received Thursday, 12.20 p m„ BOMBAY, Sept. 4. Bombay is on the brink of wholesale communal rioting rivalling the carnage at Calcutta, says Retiter's correspondent. Police and troops u are endeavouring to check the rioters wherever seen before they get out of hand and already have fired six times during the morning. The Government has extended the curfew over most of the city excepting the European quarter, and posted 8000 troops and police but sporadic rioting continues including assaults, shop burnings, qverturning of vehicles and stone and bottle throwing. The police are answering calls for help from Hindus living predominantly in the Moslem quarters and vice versa. Troops had to be called in to break a siege by Pathans of a large Hipdu tenement. The day's casualties bring the totals to 129 killed, 433 injured and 1100 arrested. CALCUTTA, Sept. 4. Makham Lal Biswas, secretary of the Bengal branch of All-India, and the Hindu Mahasabha, of the militant Hindu organisation, have been arrested, believed to be in connection with the recent rioting in Calcutta.