BOMBAY RIOTS.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20550, 19 May 1932, Page 9

BOMBAY RIOTS.

HEAVY DEATH-ROLL. RACIAL MOBS USE KNIVES. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION— Bf ELXCTRIO TELFORArH—COPVRIOHT) CALCUTTA, May 17. Persistent rioting in Bombay resulted in the dispatch of further troops to the city. The trouble is becoming worse. There were further attacks to-day, as tho result of which seven are dead and CO injured, making a total of over 70 dead and 730 injured. There is tense excitement in the city, and the trouble is spreading to the European shopping centre. The polico thrice fired on a Moslem crowd who set fire to a Hindu dwelling, injuring many. Tho difficulties of the situation arc increased by tho temporary closure of 30 cotton mills. Thousands of operatives are idling in tho streets, ripe for mischief. The communal frenzy reached its climax last night, mobs looting and burning shops and houses, and making street bonfires of their contents. Many centres are practically bosieged, Hindu and Moslem mobs savagely battling with knives. The hospitals aro filled with injured and dying, and thousands aro fleeing from the city. The presence of British troops patrolling the disturbed areas had a salutary effect to-day, but the tension was heightened by the fact that it was the Feast of the .Moliarram, the Moslem new year. The police and troops are displaying complete impartiality towards the rioters. An order forbidding movement during the night time and prohibiting assemblies of more than five people has been issued. The Governor of Bombay, MajorGeneral Sir Frederick Sykes, to-day drove through the disturbed areas. There was also a clash between Moslems and Hindus in Calcutta to-day, and during the efforts to restore order deputy officers and constables were struck by flying missiles. Several civilians also were hurt.