INDIAN RIOTS.
"RED" INFLUENCES.
Casualty List, 112 Killed, 400 Wounded. BRITISH TROOPS CALLED OUT. (British Official Wireiess.) (Received l'J noon.) RUGBY, February 12. In the House of Commons in a statement on the Bombay riots Lord Winterton, Under-Secretary for India, said that these originated in a strike of the Hindu workers organised by local Communists in the Oil Company's Avorks. Resentment of the strikers against their Piithan substitutes had gradually developed into a battle between Hindu and Mohammedan communities, in whK'li the active agents of both sides were bands of murderous hooligans. Various contingents of British and Indian troops had been called in and the situation, though still serious, was apparently improved. The total casualties to date were 112 killed and 400 wounded. The troops had had to fire a few shots on fourteen occasions to disperse the mob. The maximum number of rounds tired on any one occasion, being eleven. Three persons were reported killed and sixteen injured by tiring.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 37, 13 February 1929, Page 7
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