PLUCKY SCOTSWOMAN
INCIDENT IN KARACHI MOB HELD AT BAY (Received March 21. 3 p.m.) KARACHI, March 20. During yesterday's riot, a white-haired Scotswoman. Mrs.' Daisy Munro, superintendent of the hospital, held its gate against 600 excited Moslems who rushed thither to inquire of relatives who possibly had been killed or wounded when the troops fired. Agitators incited the crowd to force the gate, hut Mrs. Munro faced the mob and calmly asked whether they preferred being held hack by her or armed police. The crowd remained orderly. Unarmed police took up guard duties.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18661, 22 March 1935, Page 13
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