BOMBAY RIOTS
, TENSION MOUNTING IN CITY POLICE CHARGE CROWDS BOMBAY, January 24. Trouble broke out afresh this morning, reports Reuter's correspondent. A crowd in the Girguam area—the congested Hindu quarter—set fire to a tram car and "looted some-shops which had remained open despite the call for hartal (voluntary closing). The police opened fire to disperse the rioters. They charged along the street in the Moslem business area with lathis to break up a crowd which had collected outside shops which they had tried to close. An Associated Press correspondent says that tension is mounting." Students have called a strike and refused to attend classes. They paraded through the city, and some of them loudly declared they would fight if the police interfered.
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Evening Star, Issue 25700, 25 January 1946, Page 5
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