UNREST IN INDIA.
SERIOUS STRIKES. RIOTING AND ASSAULTS. BATTERIES OF ARTILLERY ON GUARD. (l)X TELEGHArU—I'ItESS ASSOCIATION—COI'TBIGnT.) Calcutta, July 19. Fourteen thousand'operatives at the cotton and jute mills hive struck. : There lias been considerable rioting and window-smashing and. some assaults on Europeans. The attitude of-the-strikers necessitated the calling 'out of the military. Twelve thousand Strikqrs then resumed work. Batteries of artillery . still remain .in tho disturbed area. , . ' "TO HASTEN.-AUTONOMY." BLOODLESS FIRE DISPERSES A CROWD. THE RIOT ACT READ. (Rec July 20, 11.10 p.m.) Calcutta, July 19. , Fourteen thousand Bombay mill hands struck- in order to hasten the granting of autonomy. , ' They pelted Europeans with stones and brickbats, and also broke window's. ■' The Riot; Act was read and the police fired, dispersing tho crowd. No livos were lost.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 255, 21 July 1908, Page 7
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