CROWD FIRED ON.
Police Kill 32 and Injure 48 In India. LARGE CONGRESS MEETING. (Received 10.30 a.'m.) MADRAS, April 26. Thirty-two persons were killed and 48 were injured when the Mysore State police fired on a Congress meeting at Hiduraswathan, near Kolar, which °was attended by 20,000. The meeting is said to have contravened the order prohibiting the hoisting of the Congress flag. The police attempted to remove the flag, but were surrounded bv a violent crowd which they tried to disperse by a baton charge. The Mysore Government stated that the police were forced to lire in self-defence. No Congress members were shot, only villagers. Kye-witnesses declare that no time was given for the crowd to disperse.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 97, 27 April 1938, Page 7
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