TROOPS CALLED OUT
BOMBAY SITUATION
PITCHED BATTLES & LOOTING
POLICE IN CONTROL
United Tress Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received October 19, 11.20 a.m.) BOMBAY, October 18. The rioting situation has become worse, and British troops have been called out. ' Sixteen motor-lorries filled with Durham Light Infantry are patrolling the disturbed area.
Pitched battles and looting continued all day.
Ten more persons were killed and many injured, and hundreds of hooligans have been arrested.
Lord Brabourne, Governor of Bombay, has arrived from Poona. He says that the police now have control of the situation.
Police fired on a crowd of Hindus attempting to burn a mosque. A Moslem policeman single-handed heroically defied, until reinforcements arrived, a mob of 300, who were threatening to burn a Hindu family of five women, four children, and an aged man.
Yesterday's casualties were nine killed and 100 injured, bringing the aggregate to 46 killed and 440 injured.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 18, 19 October 1936, Page 9
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