VERY TENSE SPOT
SITUATION IN BOMBAY 31 DEAD, 170 INJURED (3 p.m.) . , t LONDON, Aug. ,11. • Bombay remains a very tense spot. Thirty-one persons have /been killed in the past three days, more than 250 injured, and over 500 arrested. Five deaths and 14 persons injured were, reported to-day from Patna, three deaths and: 22 injured from Madura, three deaths in old Delhi and one death in. New Delhi. The Cawnpore authorities have promulgated the death penalty for arson and .for rising explosives. Bengal province, where there are 20,000,000 Hindus, is reported to be calm. «- - - - --
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20861, 13 August 1942, Page 5
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