RIOTING IN CALCUTTA
POLICE AGAIN OPEN FIRE. (Rec, 11.15 a.m.) CALCUTTA, Nov. 22 The police opened fire twice at five minute intervals today when a large crowd again demonstrated in Dharamtolla Street. Three people were injured. All public transport ceased when the demonstrators dragged the occupants from trams, buses and rickshaws. Shops in the main business sections closed.
One thousand students demonstrating in favour of the Indian national army squatted all night in the road because? the police forbade their march to the Government offices.
The crowd dispersed yesterday after the police had opened fire, but reassembled later and spent the night in the middle of the road warming themselves by paper bonfires. The Governor of Bengal (Mr R. G. Casey) visited the scene, approached the fringe ■of the squatting crowd who were still shouting slogans, and asked them to go home. The Mayor of Calcutta has demanded an inquiry into the shooting yesterday when two were killed and GO wounded. He described the police action as unwarranted, unjustifiable and cowardly.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 305, 23 November 1945, Page 5
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