ALLAHABAD FAIR
MILLIONS BATHE IN GANGES
Delhi. January 30.
Ycsterdy was the greatest day of the Allahabad Kumbli Mela fair. It is officially estimated that four and a half million persons bathed in tlie Ganges. A tragedy was narrowly averted when a young male elephant became fractious, gored a female elepliant, and ran amuck, trampling on huts, which soon took fire. The mahout clung desperately to the animals tail as it careered along, with two million people packed in a space two miles long and one mile wide. There, was imminent risk of scores of casualties, thanks to the resource of a magistrate and the superintendent of police, the beast was ultimately safely recaptured.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 110, 3 February 1930, Page 11
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