RIOTS IN INDIA.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1820, 5 August 1913, Page 5

RIOTS IN INDIA.

MOSLEM MOSQUE DESECRATED,

ANGRY MOBS.

WIDESPREAD INDIGNATION.

WIDESPREAD INDIGNATION. ByTeJ«ro,pli--Prt«s AesoelaUon-Oopyriffit (Bee. 'August 4, 10.50 p.m.) Delhi, August 4. The authorities at Cawnpore have demolished a portion of the Macblibazar Mosque in connection with street improvement works. This action has aroused animosity throughout India and Burma. There is groat exoitement at Calcutta, where bands of Moslems, with flags, paraded the streets demanding justice. At a mass meeting held in the Town Hall at Cawnpore, the speakers denied tho officials' explanation that the portion of tho mosque which had been demolished was not sacred. After tho meeting, a Modem procession, with black flags, marched to the mosqno and began to replace the.demolished portion. When the police intervened tho crowd stoned and pursued them to the police station.

Mr. Tyler, the district polico magistrate, with an armed body of police, then appeared'. The csrowd stoned them, and a blank volley was fined by tho police. Tlio mob paid 110 heed to the warning, and a volley of ball cartridge followed. Tho police chargcd and dispersed the rioters.

Thirtoan of the rioters wero killed and forty wounded; while, on the other side, one policeman was shot and forty injured.

Violent articles nro appearing in tho Moslem press.

Tho Lieutenant-Governor has gona to Cawnpore.