DISORDER INCREASES
THE INDIAN CAMPAIGN MANY CASUALTIES OCCUR CALCUTTA. April 16. Additional details of rioting shows that tramcars were stoned at li'aowanipore. Nine people were injured, including a woman, who is in a grave condition. Several cars wore wrecked. Tiic police arrested 20 persons and discovered dumps of stones hidden on house tops. Fifty, including lij British police sergeants and Indian eonstables and 11 firemen,,were injured in the rioting yesterday. Two Sikhs were taken to hospital, suffering from le Met wounds. Miss Anna Dencli, a British girl, was pulled from a motor cycle and stoned, and was rescued by British police while being dragged away by Sikhs. Armed police cleared the streets, using bayonets, while the lire brigade manned hoses. Many roads were blocked by (lisr\.nfled <■'.',)■*. and fanatical students held up trains by lying on the rails. A hartal was celebrated throughout India yesterday. Students absented themselves from the schools and ill the colleges foreign cloth was publicly burned.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17237, 17 April 1930, Page 7
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