NINETEEN DEAD

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 582, 7 February 1929, Page 11

NINETEEN DEAD

RIOTS IN BOMBAY AND COLOMBO INJURED NOW TOTAL 250 (United I*.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) . Received 11.25 a.m. DELHI, Wednesday. There are now 18 dead and 114 injured as a result of the Bombay rioting due to the kidnapping scare. All business has been suspended in the Indian quarter, and the hospitals are filled with injured, including many police. British troops were called out to-day. The dead include a European police inspector. There is a possibility of the cancellation of a race meeting fixed for today. The cotton and bullion markets have been closed. Throughout the night mobs shouted: “Victory for the Red Flag.” Mill hands armed with laths moved about in large groups either for self-protection or prepared to pounce on any stray Pathans. A message from Colombo states that the fifth death has occurred there as the result of yesterday’s riot. The injured now total 135, and 33 serious cases are still in hospital. Spasmodic stone-throwing and minor disorders continued to-day. The Ceylonese police, whenever they appeared, were stoned or assaulted, but the European police were not molested. Surgeons and doctors in Colombo General Hospital worked all night long, operating and dressing wounds. Thousands of sightseers to-day visited the police headquarters to inspect the damage done, but the crowd was orderly, although morose. Goone Sinha toured Colombo today and addressed the crowds. He said:

“If the smallest stone is thrown at the police, I will feel it my duty to give myself to the police and ask to be shot -to expiate the crime.” No serious trouble is anticipated tonight.