THE KARACHI MOTS

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 70, 23 March 1935, Page 6

THE KARACHI MOTS

HEAVY DEATH, ROLL

KARACHI, 1 March 21.

The Moslem death-roll in the riot now numbers forty and it is feared that many more will die. The situation at present is calm, but the Sussex Eogiment and armed police are patrolling the city. , Before the clash nearly 50,000 prayed by the exhumed coflin of the executed man, Quayam. Even after the troops fired thousands of fanatical Moslems refused to abandon the coilin, but their religious leaders eventually persuaded them to place the body in its original,

grave. The Delhi correspondent of "The Times" states that the Government was virtually censurefl when a motion adjourning the Assembly in order to discuss the Karachi shooting was carried by 67 votes to 52. The opposition, alleged that the authorities failed to take sufficient precautions to prevent developments arising in a situation which was foreseen for several days. :

Sir Henry . Craik, Home member,: said ptiat,a Karachi magistrate> repprt showed that the mob did not intend to rebury the body, but meijely to inflame feelings ■against.Hindus1.1 The mob stoned two officials, overwhelmed the police, and actually seized a soldier's rifle. ' If the soldiers had not fired the whole population would have suffered as the Hindus did in 1927. /