RIOTING AT COLOMBO.
FOUR PEOPLE SHOT DEAD.
ATTACK ON POLICE BUILDING
(Received February 1, 12.5 a.m.) United Service. COLOMBO, Feb. 6. Four people were shot dead, a fireengine was partly burned, and many rioters and police were injured yesterday, in the course of a thrilling attempt by an infuriated crowd to set fire to the headquarters of the police at Colombo.
Tho attack is believed to have been a quite unauthorised attempt on the part of workmen in the city to revenge themselves upon the police for alleged insult, and the rumoured assault by a police officer upon their idolised leader, Goonesinha, president of tfie Ceylon Labour Union. A tramway strike which has been in progress for 10 days was temporarily called off to-day, pending negotiations.' Although only four persons were killed, between 250 and 300 were injured, 50 of them seriously, in the riot. Surgeons and doctors in Colombo General Hospital worked all night long, operating and dressing wounds. Thousands of sightseers to-day visited the polico headquarters to inspect the damage done, but the crowd was orderly, although morose.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20174, 7 February 1929, Page 9
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180RIOTING AT COLOMBO. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20174, 7 February 1929, Page 9
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