RIOTS AT SURAT.
TOWN PANIC-STRIKEN. MANY RESIDENTS INJURED. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) Re:eived 12.25 p.m. to-day. DELHI, Oct. 1. The Surat riot casualties total seven dead and two hundred injured. Fifty arrests have been made. Tre town is panic-stricken and business paralysed Armed police are patrolling the streets. Racial riots occurred in several centres of the province of Bombay, stated -a message yesterday. At Surat' the police were forced to open fixe to disperse the rioters, who stoned u Hindu procession. There were many casualties. A tense situation prevails.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 2 October 1928, Page 9
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94RIOTS AT SURAT. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 2 October 1928, Page 9
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