INDIAN AFFAIRS.
PROCLAMATION OF HARTAL
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(Received August 27 9 a.m.) DELOI, August 26. There are only eleven more days for the extremists to decide ’ whether they shall enter Che provincial and central legislatures; then nominations will close. Meetings ape being held all over India. , .
Mr. Sast-ri and other members of the Keuya deputation have arrived at Bombay. Until he has. conferred with friends Mr. Sastri refuses to say anything about, tlio ' Whitehall incident, wherein, it is alleged, lie was refused an interview by Earl Winterton, Undersecretary for .India, which has been stigmatised by the vernacular papers ax an 1 insult, though Lord Peel’s subsequent explanation shows no affront was given or intended. Preparations are .being made everywhere to observe a hartal on Monday, expressing public against the Kenya decision. Stock Exchanges, merchants. Chambers of Commerce, and various similar associations have passed' resolutions calling upon members to observe a hartal. : RELIGIOUS RIOTS. MOHAMMEDANS* AND HINDUS IN , CONFLICT. (Australian and N.Z, Cable Association.l (Received Aug. 27, 9.30 a.m.) • \ DELHI, August . 26. Tho Muharran celebrations have coneluded. They resulted in serious riots in. Sanaranpnr and Gonda, in the United Provinces. A large number of casualties, with the destruction of property, have bten reported. Hindus’ shops were looted at both places. The police were . compelled to fire to restore order. Minor fracas arc reported at Ah Medabad, Calcutta, Amritsari and Nellore, mainly between the Shias and. Sunnis sections of. Islam.
At Sanaranpur a riot ota most serious // character was caused by' tho insistence j.: of Mohemmedans to. lop the branches of a sacred troo at the Hindu temple, overhanging the street, with a view that tho carrying of processional flags should not be interrupted. The Hindus resisted, whereon the temple was attacked and shops looted. A free fight ensued. Tension is high, but the situation is in hand.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16214, 27 August 1923, Page 3
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