IN INDIA
FACTION RIOTING. . Press Association.—P j Electrio ieiogrtpJU.—Copyright. J DELHI, March 20Communal rioting in United Provinces has assumed serious proportions. Eleven were killed and uvo were injured near Alirzapore. Thci trouble there stalled when a Moslem sent a dead call to a Hindu, upon whiili Hindus, armed with guns and spears, rained several Moslem houses, dragC.'U people out. and killed them, and then set lire to the houses. The city of Agra is in a panic. The students of Sit. John's College there were attacked by butchers with carving knives. Guerilla warfare developed between different factious and necessitated police interference. FRONTIER CLASH. SEVERAL KILLED. (Received this ch.v at 10.30 a.m.) DELHI, March 20. One British and three Indian soldiers were killed and one British officer mid six men wounded, in a series of encounters with Afridis in the vicinity of Kliojari Plain, Hear Peshawar, on which troops recently constructed roads into tribal territory.
G A NDH L’ S MO YEMEN TS. Gandhi had tin fill day discussion with the Viceroy and Home Secretary, on the question of the reelase of political prisoners. He is now endeavouring to induce Hindu and Moslem leaders to settle communal problems.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 March 1931, Page 5
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