RIOTS IN INDIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 May 1921, Page 5

RIOTS IN INDIA.

SERIOUS TROUBLE OCCURS.

ATTACKS ON POLICE.

SEVERAL KILLED.

By Ttlefraph.—Press Assn —CopyrlcM. Delhi, April 29. An official report of serious rioting in Nasik district, Bombay Presidency, states that a sub-inspeetqr and three constables were killed and their bodies burned in a Hindu temple. Two magistrates were injured. Reinforcements off police and military are restoring order. —Reuter. Delhi, April *3O. Bad riots took place at Giridih, a mining town in Bengal. A police subinspector arrested Khilafat, a volunteer.

During the trial all the shops were closed. The magistrate remanded accused and refused him bail. A crowd of 2000 attacked the police escort, who took refuge in the gaol. The crowd stoned the gaol, badly wounding the police inspector, warders and policemen. The mob then stoned the police station with brick-bats, with the pbject of killing the sub-inspector, who had previously received warning letters. The inspector defended himserf with a revolver, and when his ammunition was exhausted used his sword. The mob finally set fire to the records. The military and police restored quiet in the town. No arrests have been made so ifar.

Details of the trouble at Malagon, in the Nasik district, show that the mob was demonstrating in sympathy with arrested non-co-operators. They belabored a small patrol of police, who fired blank cartridges to frighten them, but the mob overpowered a sub-inspec-tor, who took refuge in a house used partly as a temple and partly as a residence. The crowd threw kerosene on it and set the place on fife. The inspector tried to escape dressed as a woman, but was recognised. He used a revolver in self-defence, but was overwhelmed and thrown into the gutter, stoned and then thrown into the burning temple with two injured constables.

The rioters cut the telegraph wires, but too late to prevent a warning being sent to the troops at Dealali, who now hold the town. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.