UNREST IN CALCUTTA
Rec. 9 p.m. CALCUTTA, Dec. 28. Twenty-one Communist prisoners fought armed guards in a closed police van travelling to a Calcutta court yesterday. Three prisoners were killed, and two others and a guard injured. The van driver drove full speed to the nearest hospital as the battle raged behind him. Elsewhere in Calcutta five police were injured after firing on Communists who burned trams and threw acid bombs.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27275, 29 December 1949, Page 5
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