DEMONSTRATIONS IN CALCUTTA
(Rec. 8 p.m.) NEW DELHI, July 21. The Calcutta police arrested 51 persons yesterday—the twentieth day of demonstrations against increased second-class tram fares. In one sector of the city police armed with lathis charged a crowd of 200 trying to hold a meeting m defiance of a ban on more than four persons assembling. State buses and vehicles continued to be the main targets of the demonstrators. who hurled crackers and brickbats at them, injuring several persons.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27098, 22 July 1953, Page 9
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