CALCUTTA HAS COSTLY DAY OF RIOTING
Received Wednesday, 10.35 a.m. NEW DELHI, Sept. 2. The Bengal Government announced that nine were killed and 29 injured as a result of the military police flring, and 13 were killed and 75 injured in communal elashes in Calcutta today. Calcutta's peace since the transfer of power was an eighteen days' wonder which has now ended, says the Times' eorrespondent. The riotings are said to be a sequel to the incident on the night of August 31, when' three Moslems are illeged to have set upon one Hindu. Incidents occurred yesterday in the . former "battlegrounds" of northern Calcutta. Trams and bus traffic ceased on most roads. Mobs held up cars and gangs clashed in fights, looted shops and burned houses. TheTndians attribu-te the outbreak to the publication in Calcutta newspapers of Punjab news which had previously been withheld. The Indian Government authorities, fearing that the sporadic outoreaks of communal violence round .he capital may grow to slaughter m the Punjab scale, have began moving the Moslem minorities out jf the villages to safety. Strong patrols in Old Delhi and a twelvehour curfew " have not prevented stray stabbings and assaults. Fifty-nine were killed in the last few days. Seven have been killed in communal incidents at Bombay.
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Chronicle (Levin), 3 September 1947, Page 5
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