SERIOUS RIOT IN INDIA
REJECTED IMMIGRANTS RETURN FROM VANCOUVER
FATAL CONFLICT WITH THE TROOPS AND POLICE
By Telegraph—Preaß Aflsoolation-Oopyrlfflit (Reo: October 4, 10 a.m.) Calcutta, October 3. It is officially stated that when the Komagata Maru's Sikh passengers, who were rejected at Vancouver on account of the anti-immigration laws of Canada, arrived at Bajbaj, many of them refused to entrain for the Punjaub, and fired, killing Mr. Lomax, the assistant traffic manager of the railway, and four natives, and wounding the Commissioner of Police, and several policemen. A volley from the troops tilled sixteen. Sikhs. The remainder scattered. Many were arrested.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2272, 5 October 1914, Page 7
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101SERIOUS RIOT IN INDIA Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2272, 5 October 1914, Page 7
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