QUARRELSOME SECT.
TROUBLE AT ALLAHABAD.
REVOLVER SHOTS EFFECTUAL. *- , • DELHf, Jan'. 28. The first'real trouble at a huge fair at 'Allahabad occurred yesterday when 100 •people were injured. .1' ivo thousand semi-nude Saddhus, farmed with cudgels, stormed a police * station .and the headquarters of the volunteer Scouts. These Saddhus are known to belong to a quarrolsomc sect which resprits an order of expulsion from a certain compound.. , - '' A critical situation was only averted by sub-Inspector of polico firing threo shots .from a revolver. Thereupon the. ISaddhus -'raced off to their own huts.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20476, 30 January 1930, Page 12
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91QUARRELSOME SECT. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20476, 30 January 1930, Page 12
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