INDIAN FESTIVAL
IMPRESSIVE SCENES HINDU-MOSLEM CLASHES CALCUTTA, April 6 There were impressive scenes in Calcutta to-day at the great Mahommedan festival of Bakrid. Countless thousands in their gladdest garb congregated at mosques to offer prayer. The remainder spent the day holiday-making. The poor wero not forgotten in their supplications, and thousands of beggars who lined the pavements were rewarded. Elaborate precautions wero taken by the police to prevent a disturbance, as this is a favourite day for communal warfare. The scene was repeated on a smaller scalo in every town and village in India. Eighteen people were injured in clashes between Hindus and Moslems at Behala, a suburb of Calcutta, in connection with the festival. A dispute arose over Moslems taking two cows to a mosque for sacrifice, to which the Hindus and Sikhs objected. The factions attacked each other with knives, sticks and stones. The riot eventually was quelled by the police.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21462, 8 April 1933, Page 11
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