BLOOD FEUD.
RIOTING PERSISTS.
TERROR IN BOMBAY. Seventy Dead and Hospitals Filled With Injured. HINDU-MOSLEM HATRED. (Uiiibcd P.A.-Electrlc Telegraph-Copyright) (Received 11 a.m.) CALCUTTA, May 17. Persistent rioting in Bombay has resulted in the dispatch of further troops to the city. The trouble is becoming worse. There were further attacks to-day and seven are dead and 50 injured, making the total over 70 dead and 730 injured. There is tense excitement, in the city and the trouble is spreading to the European shopping centre. The police on three occasions fired on the Moslem crowd, who set fire to a Hindu dwelling, injuring many. The difficulties of the situation have been increased by the temporary closure of 30 cotton mills. Thousands of operatives are idling in the streets, ripe for mischief. Communal frenzy reached a climax last night, mobe looting ami burning shops and houses, and making street bonfires of the contents. Many centres were practically besieged.
The Hindu and Moslem mobs are savagely battling with knives. The hospitals are filled with the injured and dying, and thousands are fleeing from the city.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 116, 18 May 1932, Page 7
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181BLOOD FEUD. Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 116, 18 May 1932, Page 7
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