HINDUS AND MOSLEM
Fierce Encounter in India
HEAVY CASUALTIES By Telegraph—Press Assn—-Copyright. CALCUTTA, September 28. Seven were killed and 50 badly injured iu a three hour battle between Hindu and Moslem peasants in the Mianwali district of the Punjab. A Hindu landlord accompanied by bailiffs and 100 employees went to attach a Moslem’s land in execution of a Court decree. They were surrounded by an angry crowd of peasants armed with spears.
A fierce encounter ensued, the landlord being among the dead. Two English police officers, four constables and two bill-oollectors were seriously injured by an Indian doctor, who ran amok in a Bombay house when bill collectors and the police called to demand six months’ arrears of rent. The doctor rushed them with an enormous ancient sword, but was shot dead by h police officer with a revolver alter a bitter struggle.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 246, 29 September 1934, Page 7
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