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HINDU-MOSLEM RIOTS
BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN.—COPYBIGHT.]
DELHI, March 20.
Communal rioting in United Provinces has assumed serious proportions. Eleven were killed and two were injured near Mirzapore. The trouble there started when a Moslem sent a dead calf to a Hindu, upbn which'Hindus, armed with guns and spears, raided several Moslem houses, dragged people out and killed them, and then set fire to the houses.
The city of Agra is in a panic. The students of St. John’s College were attacked by butchers with carving knives. Guerilla warfare developed between different factions and necessitated police interference. Gandhi had an all day discussion with the Viceroy and the Home Secretary on the question bf the release of political prisoners. He is now endeavouring to induce
the Hindu-Moslem - leaders to settle communal problems.
SKIRMISHES WITH AFRIDIS.
(Received March 21, 11 a.m.) DELHI, March 20.
One British and three Indian soldiers were killed, and one British officer and six men were wounded in ar series of encounters with the Afridis in the vicinity of Khajuri Plain, near Peshawar, on which troops recently constructed roads into tribal tends, tory.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 March 1931, Page 7
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