BOMBAY RIOTS

Grey River Argus, 19 October 1936, Page 5

BOMBAY RIOTS

NEAR 500 CASUALTIES Police Fire on Mobs Six Times (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) BOAIBAYQ October 16. A riot commenced at dawn throughout the city. The jioliee fired four times in two hours. There were many additional casualties and a hundred arrests. BOMBAY’, October 16, Hooliganism is spreading- despite the prohibition of carrying arms. Alobs are looting and attempting to set fi' e to other mosques and temples. The police fired again this afternoon. Tranis are stopped and shops in the affected areas are closed.

Up to the present, 22 have been killed and 150 injured. BOAIBAY. October 16.

Despite the curfew, clashes continue over a wide area. There is a total ol thirty-two killed and 340 injured. There are fifty stabbing cases in one hospital alone. The Hindu and Aloslem leaders had a conference and appealed jointly to communities for peace, promising settlement of the dispute by negotiation. Ugly scenes occurred in the Byculla area when the mob tried to attack the Hindu temple and set fire to a mosque Five hundred district police rein foreements rushed in and thwarted the attempt. As a strange contrast, while the Indian quarter is seething with excitement, the European section is peaceful and traffic is normal. An earlier message states that hooliganism is spreading despite the prohibition against carrying arms. Mobs are looting and attempting to set fire to other mosques and temples. The police fired again this afternoon. Trams are stopped and shops in the affected areas are closed. 38 KILLED. BOMBAY, October 17. The rioting again started here today at dawn. It was accompanied by the looting of shops and the setting on fire of Hindu temples. The police fired on a crowd of Hindus who were attempting to burn a Mohammendan mosque. The police have altogether been forced to open fire six times as the result of the riot disturbances. The casualties now total thirty-eight killed and 360 injured. CASUALTIES INCREASE. A BRAVE POLICEMAN. (Received October 18, 7.30 p.m.) BOMBAY, October 17. To-day’s casualties were nine killed anfl 01111 hundred injured, bringing the aggregate to 46 killed and 4 injured. A Moslem policeman, single-handed heroicafy defied a mob of three hundred who were threatening to burn a Hindu famii’y of five women and. four children and an aged man, until reinforcements arrived.