CAWNPORE RIOTS
APPALLING CARNAGE CONGRESS HELD CULPABLE. INTOLERABLE TYRANNY. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received 9 a.m.) CALCUTTA, June 9. Commenting on the Cawnpore riots and the committee’s report on them, the “Calcutta Statesman’ ’ says that, while the committee estimated the number of those killed at 500, popu lar belief put the number much high-
The direct cause of the murder, massacre and appalling savagery, which caused the streets and lanes to run with blood, w r as, the newspaper says, “the intolerable tyranny of the Indian National Congress in proclaiming a hartal, or cessation of business life, in the city, because a terrorist had paid the penalty imposed by law for taking human life.’’
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Northern Advocate, 11 June 1931, Page 5
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