RIOTS IN LAHORE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22167, 22 July 1935, Page 9

RIOTS IN LAHORE

TROOPS CALL® OUT MOSLEMS OUT OF HAND , SERIOUS CASUALTIES RESULT By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright (Received July 2i, 5.5 p.m.) LAHORE. July 20 A detachment of the Royal Scots Regiment was forced to fire at a huge crowd of Moslem -rioters as the climax to Say and night defiance by the mob arising out of Sikhs' attempt to demolish a disused Moslem mosque situated in the grounds of a Sikh shrine. The mob had resisted baton charges by the police, wrecked prison vans and threatened to overwhelm the police under cover of a barrage of brickbats. The troops ■were called out and Royal Air Force machines circled overhead.. It is believed that 10 of the mob were killed and many injured- when the soldiers fired four rounds. .The casualties are uncertain as the rioters earned, off most of the dead, but tltree were found dead later. Fifty policemen, including fire British, -were injured by stone-throwing. Indian cavalrymen charged and were met bv a barrage of brickbats. One. man; ■was thrown from his horse into a drain, where he was trampled to death by the terrified animal. The crowiis are still menacing in spite of the curfew, and refu.se to leave the streets. Armoured cars are patrolling the city.