MOSLEM OUTBREAK
TEOUBLE IN KASHMIR SOLDIERS USB FIREARMS. I | (Received 9 a.m.) | CALCUTTA, February 3, • A mob of 8000 Moslems at Srinigar, , Kashmir, overpowered the police, attacked the Government building, and attempted to storm the Treasury building, w'hich was saved from destruction by the arrival of troops. The soldiers w'erc compelled to open fire before they dispersed the mob. Many of the demonstrators were killed or wounded. 1 | Marly in the day a huge procession j had been held, though previously it j had been banned. The trouble was j clue to the Moslems’ discontent over the delay in introducing political re- ! forms recommended by the Glarnpy Committee in 1932, \
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Northern Advocate, 5 February 1934, Page 10
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