POLICE TRAPPED
GAMBLING DEN RAID. 'United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). i (Receirorl this dav at 11 a.m.) CALCUTTA, October' 20.
Trapped in a gambling den by an infuriated mob of two hundred, a European police officer and a handful 'of Indian constables .plUcki,ly withstood-repeated attacks on a house on the outskirts of Calcutta last night. Buckner, the officer in charge of the raid was twice felled by stones and received an ugly gash in the leg from a spear. He lay unconscious for hours; A sub-officer was seriously wounded and was sent to the hospital. The den was situated in the heart of the jute mill 'area. Police reinforcements failed to arrive on the scene owing to a breakdown, with the result that the mob was able to pen Buckner’s party in, a hut where they were bombarded with bracks and attacked through the roof with spear pointed s!akes. The position became desperate and Buckner decided that the only hope’ was to break through the mob and this they did, and eventually reaching the road, Reinforcements relieved the situntfion. Fifty arrests were made.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 October 1929, Page 5
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183POLICE TRAPPED Hokitika Guardian, 21 October 1929, Page 5
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