MUTINY IN CALCUTTA GAOL.
DELHI, April 27. (Received April 28, at 1 p.m.)
A serious mutiny occurred in the Presidency Gaol at Calcutta, arising out of discontent engendered by the belief that political prisoners received better treatment than other prisoners. Tho trouble oamo ■to a head when a warder struck a prisoner. Eighteen hundred convicts .refused to parade. They armed themselves with sticks and sledge hammers and attempted to brush, and set firo to tho jute sheds and oil tanks. Tho warders fired, but tho outbreak was not quelled till armed troops and the police arrived. Tho goal is now under military control. The casualties are reported to be heavy. Three men are known to bo dead- Borne of the buildings were damaged by tiro.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 17955, 28 April 1922, Page 6
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