CLASHES IN BOMBAY
CONGRESS AND POLICE
INJURIES ON BOTH SIDES
(Received 10th November, 11 a.m.) DELHI, 9th November. The police were forced to fire on an unruly mob in Bombay. A party of constables, returning to the station, after dispersing rowdy demonstrators, was attacked by a mob. The police fired revolvers into the air. One of them was injured and they then had to fight their way through. Two members of the "People's Battalion" went to the Bombay High Court and pulled down the Union Jack and hoisted the Congress flag. A crowd of several thousand last night attacked the Marbawadi police station in Bombay and stoned the occupants, twenty of whom, including the superintendent and six officers, wer-e injured. , Police reinforcements dispersed the crowd after, a series of baton charges. Two hundred were injured.
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Evening Post, Issue 113, 10 November 1930, Page 9
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135CLASHES IN BOMBAY Evening Post, Issue 113, 10 November 1930, Page 9
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