MOB VIOLENCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 August 1942, Page 4

MOB VIOLENCE

FIRST SERIOUS OUTBREAK IN CALCUTTA •j .— ATTACK ON ARMED POLICE. CHARGE ON CROWD FOLLOWS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, Noon.) LONDON, August 19. Calcutta’s first outbreak of mob violence on an appreciable scale occurred last night. Mobs stoned the police, set fire to tram-cars and compelled pedestrians to surrender neckties and hats, with which they made a bonfire. The trouble reacha climax! at a crossroads in the Indian quarter, where policemen, wearing steel helmets and armed with revolvers and lathis, were subjected to a shower of stones from roof-tops. The crowd then converged on the police, who charged, injuring 35 persons. Five persons were killed and three injured when the police fired on a mob demonstrating in a village fifty miles from Wardha. Gandhi’s son, Devadas Gandhi, managing editor of the “Hindustan Times,” has been arrested under the Defence of India Rules. He was arrested because he disobeyed a Government order prohibiting publication of more than three columns of Congress news and the excessive featuring of subversive activities. The police searched the office of the “Hindustan Times” and seized copies. The management decided to cease publication.