DEATHS IN CLASHES: INDIAN UNREST
CALCUTTA, Aug. 12. One person was killed and several were injured when police fired on unemployed workers who attacked them with bombs and brickbats outside a locked-up factory in a Calcutta suburb today. Trouble began when workers threw a bomb at the factory manager after he had refused to negotiate with them for reopening the factory. A Madras message says that police used tear and gas bombs and fired on Communist detainees in Cuddalore gaol, Madras Province, on Thursday night, killing one detainee and one convict following an attack on wardens by prisoners armed with knives, lathis and stones. Several police and prison officials were injured. The trouble occurred when prisoners refused to be locked in the cells.
Special police were being used to guard strategic points throughout Madras Province, said the Minister of Law, Madhnva Menon. today. He added that sonic Madras Ministers, including himself. were under the “death sentence" by the Communist People’s Court, according to threatening letters they had received recently.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23024, 15 August 1949, Page 5
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