FIERCE FIGHTING
STREETS OF CAWNPORE
OVER HUNDRED KILLED
INHABITANTS FLEE
United l'rosa Association.—Hy Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received 271h March, 11 a.m.) DELHI, 26th March. Cawnpore is now practically deserted following a continuation of the communal rioting. The latest reports reveal a very grave situation, with lighting of the fiercest kind in the streets. Up to this morning over a hundred had been killed and five hundred injured. There were many brutal assaults on women and children. Mobs of maddened Hindus and Moslems set fire to shops and buildings throughout the city. The terror-stricken inhabitants are fleeing into the country. A curfew order is being enforced. Hundreds of police have been drafted to the city from Lucknow, Allahabad, and neighbouring towns.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 73, 27 March 1931, Page 9
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119FIERCE FIGHTING Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 73, 27 March 1931, Page 9
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