RIOTING MOSLEMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22629, 22 July 1935, Page 10

RIOTING MOSLEMS

POLICE DEFIED SOLDIERS FIRE ON THE MOB (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) , LAHORE, July 20. (Received July 21, at 6.50 p.m.) Royal Scots were forced to fire on a huge crowd of Moslem rioters, killing two and wounding others, as a climax to a day and night mob defiance arising from a Sikh attempt to demolish a disused Mpslem mosque situated in the grounds of the Sikh shrine. The mob resisted the police baton charges, smashed the prison vans, and threatened to overwhelm the police under cover of a barrage of brickbats, when the troops were called out, while Royal Air Force planes circled overhead. CHARGE BY INDIAN. CAVALRY MET BY BARRAGE OF BRICKBATS ARMOURED CARS PATROLLING THE STREETS LAHORE, July 20. (Received July 21, at 10 p.m.) Ten are' believed to have been killed and many injured when the Royal Scots fired four rounds. The casualties are uncertain as the rioters carried off their dead, but three were later found dead. Fifty police, including five British, were injured by stone throwing. The Indian cavalry charged, and were met by a barage of brickbats. . One cavalryman was thrown from his horse into a drain, where he was trampled to death by the terrified animal. The crowd are still menacing despite the curfew. They refuse to leave the streets, which armoured cars are patrolling.