GAMBLING DEN RAID

Evening Star, Issue 20311, 21 October 1929, Page 8

GAMBLING DEN RAID

POLICE TRAPPED BY MOB PLUCKY STAND AGAINST GREAT ODDS Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. CALCUTTA, October 20. (Received October 21, at 9.15 a.m.) Trapped in » gambling den by an infuriated mob of 200, a European police officer and a handful of Indian constables pluckily withstood repeated attacks on a house in the outskirts of Calcutta last night. Buckner, the officer in charge of the raid, was twice felled by stones, and received an ugly gash in the leg from a spear. He lay unconscious for hours. A sub-officer was seriously wounded, and was sent to the hospital. The den was situated in the heart of the jute mill area. The police reinforcements failed to arrive on schedule owing to a breakdown, with the result that the mob was able to pen Buckner’s party in the hut, where they were bombarded with bricks and were attacked through the roof with spear-pointed stakes. The position became desperate, Buckner decided that- the only hope was to break through the mob, and this they did, eventually reaching the road. The reinforcements relieved the situation and fifty arrests were made.—United Service.