INDIAN RIOTS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 May 1932, Page 5

INDIAN RIOTS

TROUBLE BREWING

COMMUNAL FRENZY CLIMAX

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this day at 9.25 a.m)

CALCUTTA, May 17

Persistent'rioting in Bombay resulted in the despatch of further troops to the city. ! - The trouble is becoming worse. There were further attacks to-day. Seven persons are chad and fi tv injured, making a total of over -seventy dead and 730 injured. There is tense excitment iri the city and the trouble is spreading to the European shopping centre. The police thrice fired on a Moslem crowd who set fire to a Hindu dwelling, injuring many. The difficulties of the situation are increased by the, temporary closure of thirty cotton mills. Thousands of operatives are idling in the streets, ripe for mischief. Communal frenzy reached a climax last night, mobs looting and burnlhg shops arid houses, aiid making street bonfires of the Contents. Many centres were practically beseiged, Hindu and Mosluin mobs savagely battling with knives. The hospitals are filled with injured and dying. Thousands are fleeing from the city,

congressmen ARRESTED

CALCUTTA, May 16

Armed pickets frustrated a Congress attempt to raid the Government salt depot at Wadala. Thirty Congress members worn arrested.