CRY OF "SAGRILEGE."

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 77, 5 August 1913, Page 5

CRY OF "SAGRILEGE."

A RSOT \n CAWNPORE.

THE KILLED AND WOUNDED

[By Electric telegraph —Copyiuohi [United Press Association.]

London, August 4

A riot occurred at Cawnpore, arising through the authorities demolishing a mosque. The police fired upon the mob. Thirteen natives wore killed and thirty-one wounded. One o! the police was killed and forty wounded. DEMOLITION OF A MOSQUE. Delhi, August 4. The authorities at Cawnpore demolished a portion of the Macßli Bazar Mosque in connection with street improvements. This aroused animosity throughout India and Burmah. Ther; was great excitement in Calcutta, where bauds of Moslems with flags paraded the streets demanding justice. A mass meeting was held in the Town Hall at Cawnpore. The speaker, denied the officials' explanation that the portion of the- mosque demolished was unsacred. After the meet ing a Moslem procession, with blac:-. hags, marched to the mosque and be gan to replace the demolished portion.

The police intervened, and the crowd stoned them and pursued the police to the station in the Tyler district.

A magisrate with armed police appeared, and the crowd stoned them. A blank volley was fired, but the mob did not heed this. Then a volley of liull cartridges followed, and the police charged and dispersed the rioters. Thirteen were killed and forty wounded. Numerous_ arrests were also made. One policeman was shot and forty injured. There are violent articles in the Moslem Press.

The Lieutenant-Governor has gone to Cawnporc. THE WORK OF AGITATORS. (Received 9.0 a.m.) Delhi, August 4. The riot at Cawnpore was the res'dt of outside Moslem agitators' work. They had carefully engineered a plan of preying on fanaticism and ignorance. The original scheme involved the demolition of the temple. but in response to the citizens' urgent prayer only a small projection of ilia wail j was destroyed hi the construction of the street. 1 There was no excitement in Cawnpore- until the agitators started the crv of "Sacrilege!"