COPING WITH UNREST
STEPS AT SHOLAPUR MILITARY CONTROL OF CITY STREETS BARRICADED. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received I p.m. to-day. DELHI, May 14. The troops now at Sholapur total nearly 1800. Forty arrests have been made* including the president and secretary of the local Congress committee. The military are in possession of the citv and have posted machine-guns and pickets at strategic points. The streets are barricaded, and the curfew is so strict that even Moslems, who pray at 7 and 9, are forbidden in the -streets. The city is at present deserted, and all the shops are closed.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 15 May 1930, Page 9
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101COPING WITH UNREST Hawera Star, Volume L, 15 May 1930, Page 9
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