INDIAN RIOTS
TROOPS’ DRASTIC MEASURES SHOOTING UNAVOIDABLE (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) BOMBAY, April 9. (Received April 10, at 8.30 p.m.) The Government has issued a communique dealing with the investigations of the recent firing of British troops on a riotous Moslem mob at Karachi when 47 were killed and 134 injured. The opinion is expressed that the local officials made every possible effort to prevent rioting, and a situation of grave danger was averted only by the discipline and steadiness of the trops, who, had they not fired at the critical moment, would have been overwhelmed by the fanatical mob. The Governor of Bombay (Lord Brabourne) discussed the question with the Viceroy, who concurred in the Bombay Government’s findings and its opinion that no useful purpose would be served by conducting a public inquiry as it would tend further to embitter Hindu and Moslem feelings.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22544, 11 April 1935, Page 9
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