MAGISTRATE SHOT
Leaving to Play Football INDIAN TERRORISM (Received September 3, 7.15 p.m.). Calcutta, September 2. While stepping into a car in football dress to take part in a match for the Midnapore club against a Mohammedan team, Mr. B. E. J. Burge, the Midnapore magistrate, was shot dead by a fusillade of bullets within sight of his wife, fired by a party of Bengalis. Police officials opened fire and one terrorist ’■ - as shot dead and another seriously wounded; a third was arrested. Mr. Burge was a prominent sportsman and was greatly esteemed. Acute indignation prevails over tlie outrage.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 291, 4 September 1933, Page 9
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99MAGISTRATE SHOT Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 291, 4 September 1933, Page 9
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