RIOT IN COLOMBO
FOUR KILLED AND MANY INJURED
REVENGE ON THE POLICE (United P.A. —By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 1.47 p.m. COLOMBO, Tuesday. Four people were shot dead, a fire-engine partly gutted, and many rioters and police injured, during the course of a thrilling attempt by an infuriated crowd to set fire to police headquarters at Colombo. The attack is believed to have been a quite unauthorised attempt on the part of workmen in the city to revenge themselves upon the police for alleged insult, and the rumoured assault by a police officer upon their idolised leader Goonesinha, president of the Ceylon Labour Union. A tramway strike which has been in progress for 10 days was temporarily called off to-day, pending negotiations.
MOB ATTACKS WATCHMEN TWELVE SEVERELY BEATEN (Unitea service) DELHI, Tuesday. In consequence of an amazing scare of kidnapping at Bombay, 60 out of SO mills are idle, and 10,000 railway employees have stopped work. On hearing a rumour that a Patlian had kidnapped a woman millworker, mobs swarmed out of the mills everywhere and attacked the Pathan watchmen. Twelve of them were severely beaten and left in pools of blood. The rumour was entirely without foundation.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 581, 6 February 1929, Page 9
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202RIOT IN COLOMBO Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 581, 6 February 1929, Page 9
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