SERIOUS CLASH
(Press Assn
HINDUS AND MOSLEMS RIOT IN CALCUTTA SUBURB
. — By Telegraph — Copyright).
Rec. April 7. Calcutta, April 6. Eighteen were injured in clashes between Hindus and Moslgms at Behala, a suburb of Calcutta, in eonnection with the Moslem festival of Bakrid. The dispute arose over the Moslems taking two cows to a mosque for sacrifice, to which the Hindus and Sikhs objected. The religionists attacked each other with knives, sticks and stones. The riot was eventually quelled by police.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 502, 8 April 1933, Page 5
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