COMMUNAL RIOT.
MOSLEM, SIKHS AND HINDUS. (United Service.) DELHI. Sept. 2. A communal riot took place, at Ivhai'gpur between Moslems, Sikhs, find Hindus. The Magistrate ordered the police to fire and three casualties resulted. Tho auxiliarv force was called out and a hundred' of the Frontier Force Rifles were dispatched from Calcutta. The affair is the aftermath of seven murders in the bazaars. The tension is extreme. NUMBER OF CASUALTIES. (Australian Press Association.) Received September 4. 1.5 p.m. DELHI. Sept. 3.
The total casualties in the Khargpur riot were six killed—all except one were Mahommedans —and . twenty injured, all of whom were Sikhs. A detachment of 140 Sikhs entrained from Calcutta in order, as they alleged, to investigate, but they were headed off on arrival at Khargpur. As a precautionary measure the railway workshops are closed to-day.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 237, 4 September 1928, Page 7
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