HINDU AND MOSLEM
OUTBREAK AT AGRA DELHI, ,18th March. With the date for the next Bouni Table Conference1 fixed •, for autumn, Hindu aiid Moslem, leaders, throughout India are concentrating on efforts to solve their communal differences before going'to London. Meanwhile thero is severe ■ tension between Moslems and Hindus at Agra, where one was killed and over fifty i' iured in a series. of clashes following the action of members of a Hindu procession, in playing music in front of a mosqiio where Moslems wero praying. Several of the police in attempting to ,stop tho ensuing riot wero severely injured. , Clashes occurred throughout the night, and the police were forced to fira to disperso threatening crowds. Shops in both'communities were looted and destroyed. Armed police are patrolling tho town.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 66, 19 March 1931, Page 13
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