FIERCE RIOTING
HINDUS AND MOSLEMS (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 3rd, February, 10 a.m.) DELHI, 2nd February. Fierce rioting occurred at Bewal, a Hindu-Sikh village,- as a result ,of) a Moslem schoolteacher cooking cow flesh, which is sacred to the Hindus. . .The Moslem, who was beaten by the Hindus, informed the Moslems in adjoining . villages who besieged Bewal, and looted and burnt fifteen shops, defiled a Hindu temple, flinging cow flesh into it, and burnt alive a Sikh watchman^,., . „ The number of casualties is unknown.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 3 February 1931, Page 2
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