INDIAN RIOTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 May 1921, Page 2

INDIAN RIOTS.

SERIOUS HAPPENINGS. 'CSTUAUAN AND N.Z. CA.81.1! ASSOCIATION. (Received This Dnv at 8.30 a.m.) DELHI, April 30. Bad riots took place at I Giridih, a mining town 'in Bengal. The police sub-inspector arrested Khilafat \ olum tee. During the trial all shops were closed. The magistrate remanded accused and refused him bail. A crowd of 2000 attacked the police escort, who took refuge in the gaol. The crowd stoned the gaol, badly wounding the police inspector, warders and policemen. The mob then stoned the police station with brickbats with the object of killing the sub-inspector, who had previously received warning letters. The inspector defended himself with a revolver and when his ammunition was exhausted, he used his sword. The mob finally set lire to the records. Military police quietened the town. No arrests have been made so far. Details of the trouble at Malgaon, in Lnsik district, show the mob was demonstrating in sympathy with arrested non-eomperators. They belaboured a small patrol of police who fired blank cartridges to frighten them, but the mob overpowered the sub-inspector who took refuge in a house used partly as a temple and partly as a residence. The crowd threw kerosene thereon and set the place on fire. The inspector tried to escape dressed as a woman, but was recognised. He used a revolver in self defence and was overwhelmed and thrown into the burning temple with two injured constables. The rioters cut the telegraph wires but too late to pre-. vent the warning of troops at Rpfllnliwho now hold the town,