MOSLEMS AND HINDUS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21647, 18 May 1932, Page 9

MOSLEMS AND HINDUS

SERIOUS RIOTING CONTINUES EXTENSIVE DAMAGE CAUSED (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) CALCUTTA, May 16. There were further riotous scenes in Bombay. Hindu and Moslem mobs looted shops and stores and fired dwellings, mosques, and temples, causing thousands of pounds’ worth of damage, despite the presence of strong forces of police, who dispersed tiie crowds on six occasions by rifle fire. A police order lias been issued banning the public carrying of weapons for a month. The Hindu and Moslem leaders are endeavouring to restore peace. Elaborate police precautions, including trenches, barbed wire, and armed pickets, frustrated a Congress attempt to raid the Government salt depot at Wadala (Bombay). Thirty Congress members were arrested. ARMOURED CARS CALLED OUT. A LARGE DEATH ROLL: CALCUTTA, May 10. The riots in Bombay became so serious that four armoured cars from Poona, and police from other districts, were rushed to the city, where there was more rioting this morning. Fifteen people were killed and 180 injured. The totals are now 50 dead and 580 injured, many seriously. Since Saturday 18 shops have been looted and fired. Hindus were dragged from trams and assaulted. Many sections of the city arc completely cut off.