RENEWAL OF RIOTING FEARED
APPEAL FOR CALM IN CALCUTTA TROOP REINFORCEMENTS DRAFTED (11,15 a.m.) CALCUTTA, May 27. Planes today showered “Keep Calm” leaflets on Calcutta to counter a flood of rumours predicting unprecedented riots on June 2 when the British expect to announce how the transfer of power will be effected. The Governor of Bengal, Sir Frederick Burrows, broadcast a statement that he had arranged to draft extra troops to Bengal. He added:— “Calcutta’s citizens in the past two months have been subject to attack by cowardly assassins lurking in dark alleyways who stab their victims in the back. The tension which these sporadic incidents have engendered has slowed down normal life and brought it to a halt in some parts of the city. ’ ’ Moslem and Hindu leaders also issued a joint peace appeal.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22341, 28 May 1947, Page 5
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134RENEWAL OF RIOTING FEARED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22341, 28 May 1947, Page 5
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