BIG BATTLE IN BOMBAY
FIVE HUNDRED INJURED
POLICE AND VOLUNTEERS
United Press Association—By Electric Tele eraph—Copyright. (Eeeeived 23rd June, 10 a.m.) , ■ ' DELHI, 22nd June. Over five hundred were injured in a three hours' battle in Bombay yesterday between mounted and foot police and Congress volunteers, who had massed in the vicinity of tho Esplanade Maidan, a largo open space in the centre of the city, in contravention of the Magistrate's order banning a rally there. Five hundred police, armed with lathis, or long bamboo poles, repeatedly charged the crowd, numbering fifteen thousand. Early in tho morning, in defiance of the police order, Congress workers and "National Militia" and other Nationalist organisations assembled in the Maidan for inspection by tho Pandit Motilal Nehru, President of the National Congress. The police had a very difficult task to disperso Sikh volunteers, as they sheltered behind women Nationalists. Trade iir Bombay is completely at a standstill, causing dismay to many Indian merchants who countenanced the Congress campaign and calculated on making a profit from tho boycott of British goods. European and Indian business interests, while averse to a declaration of martial law, are urging the necessity for the re-assertion of authority. The growth of the anarchical movement in several centres throughout India is evidenced by further bomb outrages yesterday at Barisal, in Bengal, and at Now Delhi.,
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 145, 23 June 1930, Page 9
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223BIG BATTLE IN BOMBAY Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 145, 23 June 1930, Page 9
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