RELIGIOUS DISTURBANCES.
RIOTS A-T DELHI. MOHAMMEDANS v. HINDUS. ■IY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT DELHI, Oct, 17. Durgapuja, the Hindus’ biggest? festival, passed off comparatively quietly at Kidderpore, the dock area of Calcutta. A procession was stoned by Mohammedans when passing a mosque. The police charged, fired four rounds and dispersed the crowd. During the ceremony of the immersion of the goddess in the Hoogly river, two boats capsized. Seventeen persons were drowned.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 19 October 1926, Page 5
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