SIKH-MOSLEM RIOTING
ATTEMPT TO RAZE MOSQUE TROOPS FORCED TO FIRE (Received July 22, 11.50 a.m.) LAHORE, July 21. The Moslem crowd did not disperse throughout the night. It increased in the morning and became violent, throwing stones. The Royal Scots were forced to five on a huge crowd of Moslem rioters, as a climax, to a day and night of mob defiance arising from a Sikh attempt to demolish > a disused' Moslem mosque situated in the grounds of a fsikh shrine. Four are believed to have been killed and many injured .when the Royal Scots fired six rounds. The casualties are uncertain, as ;the rioters carried off their dead, but three were later found dead. The mob resisted and the police made baton charges. The mob smashed prison vans and threatened to overwhelm the police under cover of a barrage of brickhats. The troops were called out, while Royal Air Force planes circled overhead. Fifty police, including five British, were injured by stone throwing. Indian cavalry charged and met a barrage of brickbats. One cavalryman .was thrown from bis horse into a drain, where he was trampled to death by the terrified animal.
Despite the curfew, the crowd refused to leave the streets, which armored cars patrolled.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18764, 22 July 1935, Page 7
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