GROWING MENACE
SITUATION DETERIORATES CALCUTTA, (Rec. 1.20 a.m.) Feb. 13. Seventeen were killed and 200 injured in the rioting in Calcutta yesterday. A Bengal Government spokesman said that Mr Casey did not proclaim martial law, but called in troops to aid the civil police, which was exactly the same situation as in last November, when troops helped to quell disturbances. Reuter’s correspondent in Calcutta says that British troops, for the first time since they were called in by Mr Casey this morning, opened fire on rioting crowds in the Wellington Square area of Central Calcutta. They did so at least three times before noon in three parts of Calcutta. Thirty-six injured were admitted to hospital between 6 a.m. and 1 p.m., suffering from either bullet wounds or the effects of the tear gas used to disperse the crowds in front of the Kalighat tram depot, which was set on fire last night. Lorryloads of troops are patrolling the streets of Calcutta, which are littered with splintered glass and other debris. An. American base commander stated that American troops are keeping completely , out of Indian incidents, and all American vehicles and personnel have been withdrawn from the streets.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26077, 14 February 1946, Page 5
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