MOB DEFIANCE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22630, 23 July 1935, Page 9

MOB DEFIANCE

THE LAHORE INCIDENTS VIOLENCE INCREASING (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LAHORE, July 21. The Moslem crowd did not disperse throughout the night. It increased in the morning and, became violent, throwing stones. The troops fired six rounds, four people being killed. POLICE ' STATION BESIEGED LAHORE, July 21. The mob is still besieging the police station and the Royal Scots are facing volleys of brickbats and stones. They fired three times at the Moslem rioters, killing several.

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 of mob defiance arising from a Sikh attempt to demolish a disused Moslem mosque situated in the grounds of the Sikh shrine. The mob resisted the police paton 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. a CROWDS DISPERSE QUIETLY LAHORE, July 22. (Received July 23, at 0.15 a.m.) After sitting in the same place for 36 hours the Moslem crowds dispersed quietly last night following an appeal by their leaders. An official communique says that there are now adequate forces to deal with the situation and no serious reactions have been reported from anywhere outside the city.