FIRING BY TROOPS
Inquiry Into Karachi Occurrence GOVERNMENT OPINION Mob Would Otherwise Have Overwhelmed Men By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright (Received April 10. 7.30 p.m.) Bombay, April 9. The Government has issued a communique dealing with investigations into the recent firing by British troops On a riotous Moslem mob at Karachi when 47 were killed and 134 injured. The opinion is expressed that local officials made every possible effort to prevent rioting and a situation of grave danger was averted only by the discipline and steadiness of the troops who, had they not fired at the critical moment, would have been overwhelmed by a fanatical mob. The Governor of Bombay, Lord Brabourne, discussed the question with the Viceroy, Lord Willingdon, who concurred in the Bombay Government’s findings and its opinion that no useful purpose would be served in conducting a. public inquiry as it would tend further to embitter Hindu-Moslem feelings.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 167, 11 April 1935, Page 7
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