BUTCHERY AT BOMBAY.

Grey River Argus, 13 February 1929, Page 5

BUTCHERY AT BOMBAY.

AWFUL FACTION WAR Tramcar Outrage. DELHI, February 11. Bombay casualties are now estimated *.t one hundred and twenty dead, and sixty-fiv e wounded. The situation has now improved. Assaults by Moslems and Hindus continue. Shops, schools and cinemas are closed, and the streets are not cleaned. An outbreak of disease is feared. (Sun Cable.) (Received February 12 at 8.40 p.m ) DELHI, February 11. An important menace in Bombay arises from the activity of hooligans, who light huge fires in the streets. Yesterday a tramcar was surrounded and stopped by a crowd of two hundred Moslems, armed with laths and knives? The Warsis and, Christians in the ear were allowed to depart, but the Hindus aboard were butchered, the tramcar resembling a slaughter house. A Bombay auxiliary force has been called out to assist the military headquarters. A mysterious explosion occurred when an apparently harmless looking tea box, lying high and dry on the Hooghley River bank, near the Diamond Harbour, blew up. This explosion resulted in thirty serious casualties.