INDIAN RIOTS
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CALCUTTA, April 16. Additional details of the rioting in India show that tram cars were stoned in Bhowan ipore. Ni 11 :• were injured, including a woman, who is in a grave condition. Several ot the ears were wrecked. The police arrested twenty, and they discovered dumps ol stones hidden on the house tbps.
Fifty persons, including fifteen British polite ser-'"ants and Indian constables and eleven firemen were injured in the earlier rioting yesterday. Two Sikhs were taken to the hospital suffering from bullet wounds. Miss Anna Dench, a British girl, who was pulled from a motor bicycle and stoned, was rescued by British police, while being dragged away. A force of Sikhs augmented the police and cleared the streets, using thmr horses.
Many of the roads were blocked by dismantled ears, and fanatical students held up trams by lying on the rails.
The “Hartal’’ was celebrated through-out India: yesterday. / Students absented themselves from the schools and colleges.
Foreign cloth was publicly burned
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 April 1930, Page 6
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172INDIAN RIOTS Hokitika Guardian, 17 April 1930, Page 6
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